I commend my chairman and the ranking member of the Banking Committee for all their hard work. This has been a wonderful bipartisan effort, and I am pleased it is included in the underlying bill. I commend the leadership of Senators…

I thank my friend and our leader from Illinois, and I commend him for this legislation. In fact, I am proud to lend my name to the legislation. I hope we move urgently to let people know that they will not be required to go home to a place…

what just happened is extremely unfortunate for American families, extremely important for people all across the country who want Members to do things in the Senate that affect them and their lives. People are feeling squeezed on all…

today I am pleased to offer this resolution in honor of Will Keith Kellogg, who founded the Kellogg Company in 1906 in Battle Creek, MI. I am pleased to be joined by my colleagues, Senators Isakson, Chambliss, and Levin. Today, Kellogg's…

I rise in support of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Cesar Chavez Voting Rights Reauthorization Act of 2006. We all know that this reauthorizes existing but currently expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act…

I appreciate being able to come to the floor to speak about something of great urgency for people in Michigan and all across our country who have family and friends who are trapped in Lebanon--and certainly people in Israel as well--as a…

Yes. Through the Presiding Officer to the chairman, thank you very much for including me in this process. My question would only be, how much time does the Senator from Missouri require?

today I offer an amendment cosponsored by Senator Levin and Senator Baucus that will require U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to charge inspection fees to Canadian shippers who export municipal solid waste into Michigan in order to pay for…

I take a special moment to say thank you to Rev. Tim Tuthill for giving the invocation today. As a lifelong United Methodist, I am very proud of him. He is associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Mason, MI, and one of our…

today at a 10 a.m. the U.S. Coast Guard will decommission the Cutter Acacia in a ceremony in Charlevoix, MI. The Acacia's keel was laid in 1942 in Duluth MN, and was commissioned on September 1, 1944. The cutter is named after the original…

I wish to have included in the Record statements of support for S. 2588, the Health Care Access for Small Businesses Act, from all across the state of Michigan. I am proud to have support from organizations as diverse as providers…

if I might just continue, there are three important pieces in this bill. They are certainly not new to us. I appreciate we are in the middle of another important discussion, but we have had an ongoing discussion with seniors all across…

before we proceed to the next vote, I want to acknowledge that this is a historic vote for us in Michigan because our senior Senator Carl Levin will be casting his 10,000th vote. We are so proud of him in Michigan. He stands for all that…

I then ask, because of the seriousness and sense of urgency, that we have unanimous consent at least to pass the bill containing only the part that waives the late enrollment penalty that starts today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there…

today as I stand here, back in Michigan the gas prices have risen to $3.10 a gallon. At $3.10 a gallon, that is the highest price at the pump that folks are paying than ever before as they get up to go to work, take the kids to school, as…

the people of Michigan and the people of the country deserve better than what we are doing right now. There is a sense of urgency. We can make this in order if we want it to be in order. There is no question about it. If we come together…

I rise today to talk about gas prices and the energy situation in our country. First, to agree with my distinguished colleague from Utah, in fact there are long-term issues we have to address. There is no question about that. Alternative…

today is a day of great celebration for Jill Carroll, and her friends and family. The Christian Science Monitor reporter and Ann Arbor native was set free today in Baghdad nearly 3 months after being kidnapped in an ambush that killed her…

Thank you, Senator Conrad. Again, thank you for your leadership on the Budget Committee.

my amendment is about guaranteeing that every veteran in America has the health care they were promised and they deserve. Over the last 2 years, we have seen a 500-percent increase in the number of veterans seeking care from the VA who…

I want to indicate that this amendment is a bipartisan amendment that is cosponsored by Senators Snowe, Reed, Lieberman, Kohl, DeWine, and Graham. It is an amendment that restores the critical funding for the Manufacturing Extension…

I will take the remaining 4 minutes and then turn it over to the chairman. This evening, there will be an amendment offered by Senators Dayton, Chambliss, and myself to address what is another important part of homeland security or law…

Actually, Mr. President, I think the confusion is that I am speaking for a moment about what was just accepted and wanted to say thank you to the chairman and the ranking member for accepting our restoration of the Manufacturing Extension…

is that the time on my side or the time in total? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time on the side of the sponsor.

I came to the Senate back in 2001 focused in part on lowering the cost of prescription drugs and the importance of making sure every American senior, every person with disabilities on Medicare, had the opportunity to receive their medicine…