Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the provisions of S. Res. 257 as a further mark of respect to the memory of the late Senator Mark O. Hatfield, of…

I am frustrated that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has taken too long to promulgate rules required by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, CPSIA, including the rules on third-party testing obligations and the component…

Madam President, this is a historic vote. It is one that has involved a lot of emotion and soul searching and a lot of hard work. The leaders are on the Senate floor--the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate, Senators Reid and…

Mr. President, I rise in strong support of the nomination of Sara Darrow to serve as a district court judge for the Central District of Illinois. Sara Darrow is a superb nominee, and she will make an excellent addition to the Federal…

Mr. President, let me say a word about the leadership in the Senate. I have the good fortune of working with Senator Harry Reid, our majority leader. In my role as whip, or assistant leader, I have been close at hand when most of the major…

Mr. President, many of us undoubtedly remember the heart wrenching images of starving Ethiopian and Somali children in the 1980s and 1990s. Those haunting images are hard to forget. Unfortunately, I am compelled to come to the floor to…

Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum and ask that the time under the quorum call be equally divided between both sides. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant…

I hope there is revenue included in any agreement. Mr. McCAIN. Well, everything I have heard is that the agreement does not have tax increases in it. Has the Senator heard differently, being in the leadership?

I would also like to thank the Senator from Arizona for the few minutes we shared on the floor. I hope more Members would do this rather than just taking turns giving speeches. These exchanges, even when we disagree, are valuable. But I…

I would just say it pains me to say I agree with the Senator from Arizona, but I do. We both feel threatening the debt ceiling is not in the best interests of the United States and both of us feel that holding out the threat that if we…

Amen. Mr. McCAIN. No. 2 is that to insist that any agreement is based on the passage through the Senate of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as I said before, is not fair to the American people because…

I am going to give the Senator a chance to speak again. Does the Senator believe that defaulting on our national debt for the first time in our history, which has been the threat looming over us from the House Republicans and others for a…