I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 46, as follows…

this amendment, No. 515, the Vitter amendment, is very simple and straightforward but important. It says that the U.S. Department of Education should not be able to bribe or coerce States into any particular set of standards or curriculum…

during the ObamaCare debate on the Senate floor, the Senate passed an amendment to the Obama bill saying that all Members of Congress need to go to our exchange for health care, just as other Americans have gone to the exchange--no special…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending…

I come to the floor today with a heavy heart to remember and commemorate the 11 soldiers, including 4 members of the Louisiana National Guard, who we lost this month as a result of a helicopter training accident on the Santa Rosa Sound…

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up my amendment No. 515. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Louisiana [Mr…

this amendment No. 515 is in response to a clear and a growing and a dangerous trend, specifically for the Department of Education to inappropriately intervene and use carrots and sticks, and weapons sometimes, to intervene in State…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To establish a spending-neutral reserve fund relating to…

this separate amendment is about a different but equally important topic. It restores our pledge to America that Congress as well as the President and the Vice President and their political appointees live under the same rules Washington…

This problem goes all the way back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he did this kind of thing.

Welcome to everybody, and thanks for being here.

I strongly opposed ObamaCare, and I still strongly oppose it because I think it's creating more problems than it's solving.

Absolutely. Well, in terms of the tech system, I think that has to be absolutely at the center of preparing our young people for good-paying jobs that are coming our way.

As we go on, I also want to recognize a small business of the week.

I think in general, the business climate in Louisiana, including in the energy sector, is the best it's been in my lifetime.

I think the first rule of health care reform is if you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free.

One is to end the 40-year-old executive order that prevents exporting oil overseas.

Instead of Congress having to affirmatively block all of these huge costly regulations, if they're above a certain amount in terms of economic impact, Congress should have to affirmatively pass off on them.

At the current rate, Louisiana can't meet our workforce development needs.

What happens instead, because of the nature of our State laws and our court system, is that everybody who ever had anything to do with development on that property for 60 years or more, everybody is sued.

I'm completely opposed to that.

Yes. I voted several times to repeal it, and I'm still working to repeal it.

I agree with that. I happen to be on the Senate committee that deals with everything related to EPA, so I'm constantly working to push back on those sorts of regulations.

I'm not optimistic he would sign something like that, but this is the fight we're having with the Executive Branch.

It's certainly not going to be our only one, as well.