today, the Senate will vote to confirm Judge Robert Kirsch to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. A graduate of Emory University and Fordham University School of Law, Judge Kirsch clerked for U.S. District Judge William…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 104 Ex.] YEAS--65 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Cantwell…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 300-Year Anniversary of the Illinois National Guard

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 103 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Ex.] YEAS--65 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Cantwell…

in the Jewish faith, there is a concept known as Tikkun olam. It refers to our responsibility to heal the world through good deeds and devotion to others. I want to tell you about a man who devoted all 92 years of his life to healing our…

today, the Senate will vote to confirm Anthony Johnstone to a Montana seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Johnstone is an accomplished appellate litigator, academic, and public servant and was unanimously rated ``well…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are necessarily absent.

the decision last year by the Supreme Court's conservative majority overruling Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion marks the first time in our Nation's history that the Supreme Court has ever repealed a constitutional right. One of the…

earlier this year, Chicago--and the entire legal world--lost a giant. John Devitt Cooney, Sr., a titan of trial law, passed away at the age of 68. He was a skilled litigator who used his brilliant legal mind, charm, quick wit, and sense of…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator…

This is about more than States rights. I think it's about a point of view that goes much further.

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. 1310 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

I thank my colleague from Minnesota, and I especially thank my colleague from Maryland. The Senator from Maryland has been working on this issue for a long time. Ben, thank you for your leadership, I thank Lisa Murkowski for making it a…

We're better than that as a Nation than to let this disintegrate into this reality.

I trust women to make these decisions, not politicians or judges or Senators.

The chaos began last June, June the 24th, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

The relentless assault on reproductive rights has to come to an end soon.

Over the past year, Americans have learned a painful lesson on the dangers of judicial activism.

There is no excuse--underline 'no'--for violence on either side of this issue, none.

We're better than that as a Nation than to let this disintegrate into this reality.

I don't want Justices making scientific decisions unless they have that education expertise.