I now ask for a second reading, but 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 having been heard, the bill will receive its second reading on…

I am here to join my colleagues, Senator Murkowski from Alaska and Senator Whitehouse from Rhode Island, to express my disappointment and frustration along with them that the disaster relief funding for our Nation's fishermen has been…

I ask unanimous consent the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 9, and the Senate proceed to its consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 19, which was submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 19) was agreed…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:02 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at 10 a.m…

I would just echo the comments that have been made already by this committee and by you that this is action that we need to get moving on immediately.

We are from New England. Senator Mikulski is further south on the east coast. But this is a bicoastal problem because, as I know Senator Begich will tell us, it is a huge issue for people in Alaska and for those on the west coast. They…

I appreciate Secretary Clinton's taking responsibility for what happened and, as she points out in her letter to this committee, for going even further than the recommendations in the report to address the mistakes that were made.

I would hope that we would follow up on this specific question because it seems to me to be critical as we look at the situation going forward.

Isn't it true that since 1994, Federal fishery failures have been declared on 29 different occasions and that nearly $827 million in Federal funding has been appropriated for fishery disaster relief?

I will be brief because my friend from Massachusetts was eloquent in talking about the livelihood of people in our fishing industry who have been affected by the disaster, and as a result there have been low species and low catch numbers…