Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to extend the time on the Democratic side for 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. Mr. President, what is the parliamentary situation? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Oh, I sure did, and it was deja vu all over again, I say to my colleague from California, because it was like the Anita Hill hearings. The Senator remembers what happened there.

Thank you very much. I want to thank my colleagues who have spoken on this amendment, particularly those who oppose the amendment. I come to the floor today with sadness in my heart. I come because over the weekend one of our Maryland…

This is not new. The discrimination against women has been around a long time. I consider discrimination against women one of the great social justice issues, whether you are a secular humanist or you have core beliefs in an organized…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today both volcanic and flabbergasted. I am volcanic that this bill is not fully paid for and that we are using permanent solutions to solve temporary problems. And, I am flabbergasted that Republicans…

Madam President, I wish to claim 10 minutes to speak on behalf of a bill which I hope will return to the Senate today, which is the surface transportation reauthorization bill. I hope we take it up. I hope we actually vote on it, and I…

Madam President, now what is the pending business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate is in a period of morning business. ____________________

Madam President, what is the parliamentary situation? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority controls the time until 6 p.m., and Senators are limited to speak for up to 10 minutes each. ____________________

Madam President, I claim 10 minutes of the Democratic majority time. I come to the floor to speak about women's health. I come to speak about the issue of prevention, and I want everybody to fundamentally remember what we debated and what…

Mr. President, I support a clean extension of the FAA bill. But I cannot support the conference report that's before the Senate today because it includes a radical provision to undermine our rail and airline workers' right to organize. The…

Mr. President, I am proud to introduce the Spending Reductions Through Innovations in Therapies Agenda Act with my good friends and colleagues, Senators Collins, Kerry, Blumenthal, and Warner. This is a bi-partisan and bi-cameral bill that…