Roy Blunt

And following up on that thought, Mr. Leibowitz, why would you have two different standards?

Even if you do establish this data, sensitive data standard, why would you have one standard for one group of data providers and another standard for another group of data providers?

that is accurate. Let me be clear, the conference report provides the same access to birth control services as the administration's request by allowing reimbursement through public health plans, which includes Medicaid. In addition, the…

The call report has grown since that time out of all proportion to its value in monitoring safety and soundness.

I think you've been asked this particular question already today, but let me just say again that I think we're eager to hear from you the kinds of things you need to better deal with this really unique and hard to penetrate…

Do you see any good-faith effort on the part of the Chinese government to crack down on this?

I want to follow up on the remarks of our friend Senator Nelson from Florida. Let me first say a couple of things about the bill that is on the floor. This is a challenging bill to bring to the floor. Senator Shelby is the chairman of the…

I am also co-sponsoring Senator Kaine's bill, and I am glad to be here with him as he talks about that bill as well.

for the information of Senators, the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill will occur immediately following the official photo at 2:15 p.m. today. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each until 12:30 p.m. today; further, that at 12:30 p.m. the Senate stand in recess subject to the call…

this week, as we are debating the National Defense Authorization Act, we also celebrate the 72nd anniversary of D- day. On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 allied troops, including 70,000 brave Americans, did something that no one had ever…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rounds). Without objection, it is so ordered. 72nd Anniversary of D-day

in the $1.9 billion request, they would not have asked for this money because they were asking for $1.9 billion of new money, some justified and some not. I believe we worked hard to get a good start here. This can clearly be an open item…

do I have any time left? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has 1 minute.

we did just vote to go to conference. I would like to see the conference be able to deal with this issue. In the Ebola funds, there is still $1.2 billion left in the Ebola funds. There is still $1.2 billion left in the Ebola fund. This is…

I mentioned what incredible leadership Mr. Alexander, the Senator from Tennessee, provides on these issues. I was pleased, as he was pleased, and I know the Presiding Officer was also, that last year, for the first time in 12 years, we…

we have looked at the proposal. I think we have reached an agreement on the proposal that takes this issue up through September of next year. I think now is the time to move forward. I urge my colleagues to vote for the amendment, and at…

this is an important issue that is being discussed on the floor. I join Senator Blumenthal certainly in my commitment to do whatever we can to extend more choice to veterans. I believe there are less than a handful of issues in which the…

We cannot afford to ignore the challenges we face.

It just seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that we've got two very different problems here.

I want to talk about the amendment I have offered with Senator Murray and Senator Mikulski and Senator Cochran. The chairman and the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee have joined in that amendment, as have Senator Graham and…

What I think Attorney General Zoeller said was that half of the robocalls come from out of the country. What could we do about that?

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Nuclear Agreement With Iran

today I want to talk about the Obama administration's nuclear agreement with Iran and the many ways the agreement has failed to rein in Iranian hostile behavior over the course of the last year. Over the last week, I thought it was…

the administration's nuclear agreement has left the region nervous, has left the world less stable, and has left our colleagues in the Senate who voted for it unwilling to vote on anything else about Iran. I think we are finding that the…