I have just checked with the clerk and it is my understanding eight amendments have been filed to date on this START treaty.

Madam President, I understand Senator Thune is the next to speak on the Republican side. I ask unanimous consent to follow him after he has spoken, and Senator Chambliss would then follow me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

Madam President, I want to respond to what has been said by my friend Senator Kyl from Arizona, as well as Senator McConnell of Kentucky, about the appropriations bill, which we are going to consider in a very short period of time. I am a…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for no more than 10 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, are we in morning business at this point? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. We are on the treaty.

I wish to ask the majority leader, does he recall the time I returned from the Appropriations Committee and said Senator McConnell had come to the committee and said he was going to establish the maximum amount that he would vote for in…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed en bloc to Executive Calendar Nos. 885, 886, 917, and 935; that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table; that…

As a former member of the Appropriations Committee, is the Senator aware of the process in that committee, a bipartisan process where the ranking Republican member and the Democratic chairman of each subcommittee sit down to literally have…

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

Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Tennessee for the kind words about the deficit commission. It was a controversial vote. I think it was the right vote to deal with our deficit and the problems we face. I want to put what happened…

Madam President, before the Senate at this moment is the New START treaty, an agreement between the United States and Russia. This is an effort to try to make this a safer world, to make certain that the nuclear weapons that are in this…

Madam President, first let me commend my colleague from New Mexico, Senator Thomas Udall, for a thoughtful presentation on a challenge we face as Americans regardless of political affiliation. It is thoughtful in that he reflected not only…