Dan Coats

You state that what is before the Congress in terms of what has been done in August, and what the goals are for the Super Committee that is going to report in November, are far short of what we need to do.

I ask unanimous consent to take 6 minutes of Senator Rubio's time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Vermont.

I want to respond to some of the statements that have been made by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle regarding the need to add disaster relief to the Continuing Resolution we will consider this week. There is no question that…

If this is the case, why did he not ask for this? We don't need to include this additional funding to meet the needs of the people for the disasters that have already occurred. The funding necessary to do that is included in the House bill…

may I inquire as to the allocation of time? The Senator from Vermont has generously yielded me the opportunity to speak for a few moments. I want to make sure I don't get the situation mixed up here so that we run out of time. The…

we all heard the President speak to a joint session of Congress last week about his jobs bill, which was released this morning. The President indicated he wanted to take his case to the people. I am glad he is doing so. As he travels about…

I want to thank the Senator from Tennessee, Mr. Corker, for what he just said. I want to affirm the extraordinary amount of effort he has made to not only inform this Senate body of the crisis that we face financially, but also to come…

I will not begin to use that amount of time. I think I can use 10 minutes or less, and I will leave some time for my colleagues. I can't count how many times I have been here speaking about the same subject, but this subject occupies all…

I wonder if I may ask how much time is allocated. We are a little out of kilter with the allocation of time. How much time do I have to speak? I want to make sure my colleagues have sufficient time to speak also. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

for several months now, I have been on the floor speaking, urging both Republicans and Democrats to listen to Americans and take this unique opportunity we have before us to do what is right for our country's future. Mr. President, 2010…

are we under a time agreement? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has 10 minutes.

Thank you, Mr. President. And I thank my colleague, also, for her patience. To send us here, after 7 months, and come up with something that is short of the minimum, that continues the uncertainty--are they going to be able to pull it…

I would like this Chamber to know that today marks the 88th birthday of one of the great Members of this Senate body, a true American hero, former majority leader Bob Dole. As I reflected on the extraordinary life he has led--I had the…

I come down here frustrated and hopeful. I want to see the glass half full even though we have been through a frustrating number of days and months dealing with our debt crisis, and here we are careening toward another crisis. Congress…

I congratulate Senator Kirk for bringing this legislation to the floor and getting it through committee in a way that is indicative of where we need to go. We were sent here not to increase spending. We were sent here to try to find a…

I am in somewhat of a unique position as a returning Senator after being out of Congress for 12 years. I never contemplated running for the Senate again or being back on this floor in any capacity except as a former Senator, but I had a…

I ask unanimous consent that Carlos Algara, an intern in the office of Senator Merkley, be granted privilege of the floor for the duration of the remainder of today's session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

today Congressional leadership on both sides of the aisle is meeting with the President to try to break the current impasse on the debt talks. As the President said in a press conference earlier this week: ``Right now, we've got a unique…

I ask unanimous consent to speak to the Chamber for not to exceed 20 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I don't anticipate taking 20 minutes of time. I hope to be back on the Senate floor this afternoon talking about a related subject, but I do want to take the opportunity essentially to bring us back to the central problem we are facing in…

All right. Thank you, Mr. President. The second track for solutions are sanctions. We currently have the Sanctions Act in place. We want to impose an additional sanctions track. That is why I have sponsored and cosponsored this new act…

All right. I apologize. I did not know that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Although consent has been given for larger blocks of time, and the Senator has just been given consent.

I will just try to see how I can wrap this up. I might ask, Mr. President, is there an order in place that I am not aware of? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The order is that the Senate is in morning business with 10 minutes to be consumed by each…

That is news to me. I ask unanimous consent for an additional 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I was not aware I had asked for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The order is for 10 minutes.