the Senator is very kind, and time is not that pressing. I am actually expecting two or three colleagues, and perhaps we will engage in a colloquy after that. I do appreciate my friend's courtesy. Climate Change

It is well taken, we have a duly elected and constituted President of the United States. And he is entitled to put his team into place.

We are getting dangerously to the point, really, where the members of the majority party are going to have make a decision about changing the rules.

The Army has reached an inflection point: We can no longer afford to choose between improving our existing systems and developing new ones. We must do both.

the Senator from Nebraska has generously allowed me to intrude on her time for a half a minute to say that I strongly support this legislation--the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Science is on our side in supporting this…

I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded back on both sides and the Senate proceed to the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the James nomination?

This is a balanced, completely bipartisan bill that would fully protect both the entitlement of Amateur Radio volunteers...

Thank you, and I might point out that Senator Blumenthal is a co-sponsor of that, and I appreciate his bipartisan support for this.

The House version of this Bill, H.R. 555 passed the House unanimously in January of 2017.

We have heard concerns about the costs of this, but we have also heard that, with the development of sensors to detect the presence of other vehicles, we might as well go ahead and spend the extra $30 to $50 to incorporate heat-detection…

we can do more to streamline nominations, and we can do more to prevent the next budget stand-off. I want to remind my colleagues of the bipartisan work that has been done by Senate Appropriations members--Republican and Democratic--in…

the Senate voted yesterday to reopen the government. I am glad that cooler heads and bipartisan good will prevailed before too much damage was done, but where do we go from here? The leadership of both Houses needs to negotiate…

as we all know, our government is now in its second full day of a shutdown. Public opinion is swinging against what is happening. As that occurs, it has been interesting to me to see that the talking points have changed on the part of the…

when we passed tax reform late last year, we knew it would be a win for American workers and for the American economy. This win for our workers and families was long overdue after so many years of sluggish wage growth. Americans will see…

I appreciate Senator Gillibrand mentioning the Island of Vieques and the situation in Puerto Rico.

Has Twitter told these data analytic companies that the purchases of this data cannot be used for counterterrorism purposes?

This MR&T program and the other infrastructure that we have all around the Country is just vital to people's lives.

So it wasn't so much an attempt to get one candidate elected over the other. It was knowing there was going to be loser and that relatively half of the population who supported that loser would think their vote hasn't counted.

These are real benefits, real disasters, real damages that haven't happened to people because we are able to do this.

I am told that there is a 54:1 benefit-to-cost ratio for what we have done so far in the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project.

There is bipartisan support for doing as much as we can as quickly as possible to alleviate the suffering there.

You protect the privacy of your users, even if a Federal agency wants to surveil that public information for anti-terrorism purposes?

I am not advocating doing away with flood control, but it is actually flood control over the centuries and decades that has caused the absence of sediment and the loss of land, is that correct?

We are going to have to come together across the aisle on ways that we can streamline the permitting processes.

If we take your recommendation and restore--and restore over a 10 year period the full use of these revenues, will that get us where we need to be in terms of meeting our funding needs?