Is it also true that Democrats came up with a pay-for that would have paid for the unemployment benefits, as the Republicans requested?

I would like to ask the majority leader: After the Democrats came up with the pay-for, the first demand of the Senate Republicans to stop their filibuster, did the Senate Republicans then join us in calling this measure for passage?

After we came up with a pay-for, which the Senate Republicans insisted on, did they stop their Senate Republican filibuster on unemployment benefits and allow us to move forward?

I would like to ask the majority leader if this followed: It was my understanding the Senate Republicans then came up with a new demand, and the demand was they be allowed to offer amendments to the unemployment insurance benefit package…

I would like to ask the majority leader this question: Is it not true that yesterday, in response to this Republican demand, the majority leader offered a unanimous consent that would have given up to 10 amendments on each side of the…

I would say to the Senate majority leader that it strikes me as unfair, if not cruel, that we are holding 1.4 million unemployed Americans hostage to this continued political negotiation where each day the Republicans come up with a new…

I would like to ask the majority leader through the Chair for clarity: Is the Senate Republican filibuster holding up unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans?

Again, addressing the majority leader through the Chair, so the refusal of the Senate Republicans to allow us to vote on the extension of unemployment benefits is denying, on average, about $300 a week to 1.4 million or 1.5 million…

I would like to ask the majority leader this question: Is it not true that the initial complaint of the Senate Republicans was that this payment of unemployment benefits was not paid for?

how much time is remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. About 20 minutes.

I ask unanimous consent that I be given 10 minutes and that Senator Schumer be given the remaining 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

pending before the Congress now is debate about unemployment benefits. On January 1 1.3 million Americans got a notice that they were not going to receive any more unemployment benefit checks. These are people out of work through no fault…

I support what Senator Blumenthal is trying to do to make sure these FISA Courts are more balanced in the appointees.

There is a public question now about privacy and whether the government is going too far.

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) are necessarily absent.

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) are necessarily absent.

I would like to ask a question of the Senator from Rhode Island through the Chair. There has been a debate on the floor, and we have heard it off the floor, about whether we should pay for unemployment benefits. Historically, if I am not…

50 years ago today, in his first State of the Union Address, President Lyndon Johnson committed America to what he called a war on poverty. Over the next several years, America conducted the most ambitions, determined, and successful…

I wish to thank the majority leader for his comments, and I will be very brief because I know the Senator from Iowa has a statement he wants to make. Let me just say that the statement made on the floor earlier this afternoon by the…

on the side supporting the pending motion, there is 15 minutes under the unanimous consent agreement and a similar amount of time on the other side. If all time is used, I would notify Members our rollcall vote will be about 11 o'clock. I…

I listened carefully to the Republican leader today. Here is what he said. If we are going to give 1.3 million Americans unemployment insurance which has now expired, we have to pay for it. Then he suggested how he would pay for it. He…

Rosenstengel's nomination is historic. No woman--no woman--has ever served as an Article III Federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois.

I want to thank my colleague Senator Mark Kirk for his support of this nomination as well.

I ask the Senator from Rhode Island under that time to yield for the following question. I don't know if the Senator was on the floor when the Republican leader said he wanted to pay for the cost of these unemployment benefits by…

I am pleased to introduce Nancy Rosenstengel to the Committee.