I yield back the remainder of time on this side. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, all time is yielded back. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Gorsuch nomination? Mr. McCONNELL. I ask for the yeas and nays…

I hadn't planned to speak this morning, but when my friend from Texas decided to give his version of history, I thought: Well, I ought to give my version. It is slightly different. Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in February of last…

for 3 straight days, the Senate Republican leader has come to the floor and has given us a history of Presidential nominations to the Supreme Court, but clearly an investigation is necessary. There must have been a hacking into his…

I just wanted to get more specific. I am not questioning what the Senator asked for. Do we have 9 minutes each or 8 minutes each?

there is a poem that I recall, and it goes like this: When I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away. I thought about that poem when I listened to the majority…

Thank you for the opportunity to say a few words today on this issue.

will the Senator from Oregon yield for a question without yielding the floor?

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 850 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives…

I ask for a clarification. Is the remaining 17 or 18 minutes equally divided? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct.

I wonder if the Senator from Oregon will yield for another question through the Chair. I ask, when it comes to the Federalist Society--of course, like so many of these dark money organizations, they refuse to fully disclose their donors…

As I recall, there was a moment in 1988, in the last year of President Reagan's Presidency, when there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court. This Republican President was in his last year--his so- called lameduck year, as many Republicans…

I would ask the Senator from Oregon, as well, through the Chair, in this situation where Senator McConnell, as the Republican Senate leader, has exercised his so-called nuclear option to stop Merrick Garland, President Obama's choice, from…

Is the Senator from Oregon aware of the fact that President Trump, during his campaign, released the list of 21 names of potential nominees for the Supreme Court, and then thanked the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation for…

I ask the Senator from Oregon through the Chair again: During the course of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised this question about dark money with Neil Gorsuch, the nominee for the Supreme Court, and…

I ask the Senator from Oregon if he will further yield. Neil Gorsuch, the judge from the Tenth Circuit who has been nominated for the Supreme Court, has had some noteworthy opinions. One was the Hobby Lobby case. It is an interesting…

If the Senator from Oregon will yield further, when I started trying to find out the source of the money for these television ads that support Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, I went to something--the 45 Committee, I mentioned to you. I…

So will I. Mr. President, I defer to the chairman of the committee if he would like to speak first.

It isn't very often that Congress can make a policy change that has life-or-death consequences for millions of people.

The prevalence of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war is almost beyond belief.

We owe them a debt not only for their work, the kind of leadership that Mr. Sharp showed, but also to pick up the cause and ensure that heroic people like this do not die in vain.

You could say we were doing nothing, but at least then consumers would have some options on ensuring the electronics in their pockets were not contributing to violence.

I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows…

most Americans agree--and I think last week's vote in the House indicated--that there is something special about healthcare. This just isn't the right of every American to own an SUV; it is the right of every American to have access to…

for 7 years, Republicans in Congress have promised to ``repeal and replace ObamaCare,'' but not once during those 7 years did they actually put together a piece of legislation to make good on that promise. Not once during those 7 years did…

last week in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director Comey confirmed what many of us have been urging for months: the need for an independent commission to look into the Russian act of cyber war on our election and any…