I call up amendment No. 2072. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Louisiana [Ms. Landrieu] proposes an amendment numbered 2072.

I add my strong voice to support the position of Senators Lieberman, Collins, Carper, and Brown, who has also been a great leader in this bipartisan effort to save the Postal Service and put it on a more sound financial footing, not at the…

It is moments like these that need to be captured and promoted.

It is beyond comprehension that this single man, with a relatively small group of followers, has been able to just run havoc through this part of the world.

We struggle to make democracy relevant to the children in our country.

I am going to have to leave to go to an Energy and Water markup, of which I am one of the ranking members.

I began work here with other Senators and then, as you know, traveled to Uganda myself.

What are we doing here to help?

Until you get your private property rights done over here, you are not going to be able to do anything.

America who has been the most successful country in the world for this entrepreneurial, democratic, open society, we would have a lot of ideas and services that help to create this country that the world is desperately in need of.

Capital does not flow to the smartest most able, it flows to those that are most connected. Period.

The Federal Government overall is somewhere between two and three. That should be frightening to everyone.

As the Senator from Rhode Island said, he had 9,000 jobs at risk in Rhode Island. We have 26,700 jobs at risk in Louisiana. This is a very significant deal and challenge for all our States. We don't have the trouble of the winter and the…

Did the Senator have an opportunity today--because I had a group from Louisiana in my office on the same subject, and I appreciate the Senator's leadership. The group was the American Engineering Society that was in Washington today. I…

I did not vote for final passage but I did vote for the Crowdfunding piece that Scott Brown and others put forward.

I come to the floor today to mark and celebrate the career of a Louisiana native who is a very dear friend of mine and someone who is admired by literally thousands if not millions of people in Texas and around the world. That gentleman is…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribute to Kenneth Hall

We are not spending, to my mind, and I am an appropriator, we are not spending the percentage of our total overall spending on research and development that your companies would.

I mean, there are things we know even though we beat ourselves up and say how terrible we are, the fact is we are pretty great and we still are.

In the President's January announcement on tourism, he said one of his goals is to expedite the visa issuance process for visitors from Brazil and China.

And I might object, because I think this is a very serious matter. I am reserving the right to object because, as the majority leader well knows, if we would follow Senator Boxer's leadership, sending the Senate bill back to the House, we…

Reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.

I am going to speak for about 10 minutes. If someone else comes to the floor, I will be happy to shorten that, but I had to come to the floor to support the leadership of Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Inhofe from Oklahoma, who have…

I think it is a really important fact to get out there, that while banks are making small business loans and the volume is greater than the SBA, their loans are short-term in nature and they are not helping small businesses.

Thank you, Mr. President. It is my distinct privilege to come to the floor this afternoon to voice my full support for Susie Morgan's confirmation as an article III judge on the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana. I have known Susie…