I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 14, as follows…

I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Sentors in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 38, as follows…

as you know, and many do, 16 years ago I introduced a bill called the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act was written to cover young people, brought to the United States by their parents, who have grown up in this country but do not have legal…

16 years ago I introduced the DREAM Act. The idea behind the legislation was that if you were brought here to America as a child by your parents, you are undocumented, you grew up in this country, you don't have a serious criminal record…

I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No…

I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No…

I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No…

I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 308 Leg.] YEAS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper…

I thank my colleague from Delaware. He and I came to the House of Representatives together a few years back, and we have had the pleasure and honor of serving together in the Senate. When he is on my team, I feel much stronger because I…

we are facing a deadline of March 5, 2018. It was a deadline created by President Trump on September 5. That was the day he announced, through the Attorney General, that he was ending the DACA Program. The DACA Program was created by…

it was 20 years ago when I was first elected to the Senate. I was asked to consider a bill called the Red Rocks Wilderness Act. I didn't know anything about it. It was a bill that had been offered by Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. He…

resuming my earlier remarks, the Native- American Tribes almost unanimously opposed the action that was announced yesterday by President Trump and Secretary Zinke to shrink the Bears Ears Monument. They have passed resolutions in support…

we had a press conference in Chicago this afternoon, and several young people were there. One is named Zarna Patel. Zarna is a student at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. She is from a family that came to the United States…

I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr…

I can't imagine how much money we spend in America to try to find the sources of heroin and cocaine.

I would like to ask a further parliamentary inquiry. Why didn't they accept page 257 after I received consent to put it in the Record? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment has not been filed yet. Consent was accidentally----

Parliamentary inquiry. This page, which is part of the tax bill, 257, as written, cannot be filed in the Senate because no one can read it; is that correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment has not yet been filed. It can be filed in…

Parliamentary inquiry. Why can't this page be filed in that form? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment as shown with the handwritten text cannot be printed in that graphic form.

I announce that the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 34, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall…

I submitted page 257 of the amendment to be placed in the Record and you gave unanimous consent for that to happen. I have now been instructed that the personnel at the Senate cannot read this page the way it is currently written. Could I…

If the Senator from Oregon would yield for just a moment, I would like to ask consent that this infamous page 257 be made a part of the Record after my speech, but I am really sorry for the members of the staff who have to try to write…

I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 38, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall…

They also told us that the biggest beneficiaries under this Tax Code--this Joint Committee on Taxation--happen to be the wealthiest people in America--surprise--and the biggest corporations. They told us that, at least in the second 10…

today I wish to congratulate Ms. Dee Braden on her retirement from the Coles County Council on Aging, CCCoA, after more than 41 years of service. One of Illinois' finest advocates for older residents, Dee started with CCCoA in 1976, as the…

I have the greatest respect for the Senate staff, and I am not trying to say anything negative about them. I was hoping that this could be entered into the Record, and I asked for unanimous consent to enter it, believing that the…