I thank my colleague Senator Isakson. I was a Governor for three budgets, and we were able to balance them every other year every cycle because biennial budgeting gives us an opportunity to prioritize scarce resources and provide more…

amendment No. 438 establishes a deficit- neutral reserve fund to protect women's access to basic health care, including family planning and birth control. It ensures that employers cannot deny coverage for contraceptives. We have seen that…

Thank you. So I hope my colleagues will support the amendment. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Washington.

I am pleased to join my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Ayotte, and the other opponents of this amendment. Senator Alexander said that States should be able to decide what to do about taxes. Well, in New Hampshire we have decided. We…

I thank Senator Levin for the work he has done to look at the tax loopholes that should be closed and to bring attention to really the fairness we should have in our Tax Code. I am here to join my colleagues in talking about the importance…

I wish to thank my colleague from Georgia Senator Isakson for his eloquent and thoughtful remarks in support of the biennial budgeting amendment. I am proud to join him as a cosponsor of this amendment and a cosponsor of the legislation we…

I come to the floor this evening to address Senator Toomey's amendment, which would remove the provisions around biofuels, amendment No. 115. I think it is important to point out that this is really more than a budget issue. The Presiding…

I just wanted to applaud the suggestion that this is a conversation that we really need to have...

While I am very pleased that the Senate was able to take up and pass the International Women's Day resolution last night, I am also extremely disappointed that this bipartisan resolution was objected to at the eleventh hour over a clause…

I was hoping to learn that this session because unfortunately we have not had a lot of regular order in terms of moving appropriations bills and the budget through the Senate. As I talk to my constituents, they really want to see us do…

As the percentage of women in the military now is close to 15 percent, it has not reached the critical mass where it will begin, hopefully, to have more of an impact on how sexual assault is treated.

The old boys' club, which I was referring to earlier, is very much alive and well within each Service branch.