Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. Thursday, January 21; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning…

I now ask for a second reading and, in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read for the second time on the next…

I ask unanimous consent the concurrent resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 228) was agreed to…

I want to first thank my colleague Jon Tester for working very hard, an extraordinary amount of time and effort to try to get this right.

We should be spending a lot more time listening to and really agreeing to agreements that have been reached at home.

It is terrible in the West. It is getting worse and worse, and it is getting scary, frankly, the beetle kill.

I commend Senator Tester very much. He has gone and worked very hard. It is very thoughtful.

This, as I said, is a much different approach.

First and foremost, we must make this credit permanent.

The quest to make the R&D tax credit permanent has gone on for too long.

Unfortunately, Congress is not allowing the R&D Credit to realize its full potential.