I wish to support the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. Cyber security is the most pressing economic and national security threat facing our country today. As a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I am…

I rise as the vice chair of the Appropriations Committee to urge my colleagues to vote no on the motion to proceed to the Energy and Water appropriations bill. I wish to comment about the remarks of the Senator from Tennessee. First of…

If we took a stand, a bipartisan stand, on medical research and said, come hell or high water, we are not going to tolerate a shutdown, a sequestration, a CR.

I am deeply concerned about the caps.

You do not want to break a promise to Barbara Mikulski. It is something you will hear about.

We should see you as an economic generator.

We are stymied by our own processes.

When you look at us, we have a chairman who is very much dedicated to NIH, certainly a vice chairman who is.

I want to commend the chairman for making this commitment for 7 percent growth at NIH, which includes 5 percent real growth at NIH.

This is quite simply unacceptable. At a time when so many other countries are ramping up their investments in biomedical research, the U.S. is scaling back.

Lifting budget caps is the most appropriate solution.

If you just have one, one would be enough.

I hope we can make a Mikulski promise that we are not going to forget the commitment of this budget and the commitment in years to come.

When we invest in NIH, we see better cures and treatments for diseases and conditions that devastate families.

I call it the 'National Institutes of Hope.'

I understand the pending business is that we are discussing the motion to proceed to the VA-Military Construction bill, and I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote against this motion to proceed. And why? Well, because, quite simply…

today we are voting on a clean, short- term continuous funding resolution, CR. Passing this legislation means no government shutdown. There may be some drama, but we intend to keep the government open and avoid shutdown, slamdown politics…

it is time give it our best to move America forward and give Americans a fair shot. Let's show the American people that we can work across the aisle and across the dome to get the job done. Instead, here we are facing another shutdown…

in recent weeks two of the leading contenders to be President of the United States called into question the devotion of American Muslims to this great country, and one even outrageously suggested that being Muslim precludes you from being…

Congress has been reviewing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for the last 60 days. This was the process set up by the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which the President signed into law and 98 Senators supported. We have…

I know it is not the usual protocol to follow the two leaders who have spoken, but I wish to exercise a personal privilege of being the senior woman in the Senate and say that on behalf of all the women in the Senate, we congratulate…

I think the parliamentary choreography does not show what we just did. We are now, through a resolution cosponsored by Senator Collins and me, cosponsored by all the women of the Senate on both sides of the aisle, celebrating the 25th…

I call up amendment No. 2663 to the resolution and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski] proposes an amendment numbered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 242 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

I further ask unanimous consent that the Mikulski- Collins amendment to the preamble be agreed to; the preamble, as amended, be agreed to; the title amendment be agreed to; and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the…