Stopping construction of this project does not make sense.

When I look at your budget and the budget request cuts more than 700 civilian jobs while increasing the full time equivalent of contractor jobs by more than 2,300, it seems like we are going in the wrong direction.

The Senate adopted our amendment.

I regret the fact that the President's nominee for Secretary of the Army... has been waiting another month for a vote in the committee.

The Administration's budget proposes major cuts for this program as well.

I have worked with Secretary Darcy and General Bostick, and I thank them for this, over the past few years.

Last month Senator Durbin and I co-sponsored an amendment to the Energy bill that increases the authorized funding levels for the Office of Science by about 7 percent per year.

We hear about unhappy Americans today in this election season.

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are…

Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call…

Madam President, this morning at Old St. Patrick's Church in downtown Chicago, there was a funeral service for an extraordinary public servant, the late senate president Phil Rock. On January 29, Illinois lost one of its most principled…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Philip Rock