I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Roberts). Without objection, it is so ordered.

I rise to oppose the nomination of Peter Wright as Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Land and Emergency Management. This position is of enormous consequence to the people of New Jersey, and I…

I come to the floor once again to speak about a humanitarian crisis that is not taking place in Yemen or in Syria or in any foreign country but, rather, right here at the southern border of the United States. They say a picture speaks a…

I rise to explain the context in which I will vote for the Romney amendment. First, I am grateful for Senator Romney's substantive contributions and his collegiality as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. The plain text of the…

as I said, we worked all weekend long with the Senator from Pennsylvania's office, and we are happy to continue to work with him to see if we can come to a common ground. His original amendment that we were discussing did include the…

reserving the right to object, I agree with the Senator from Pennsylvania that we need to fight the opioid epidemic from every angle. The trafficking of this drug fentanyl coming into the United States has to stop. Many lives are at stake…

I come to the floor again to urge my colleagues to stand up for Congress as a coequal branch of government and assert our institutional rights in the arms sales process. I want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who have…

let me summarize. I don't know of any other colleagues at this point. I do know that some will probably speak right before the votes tomorrow morning. I thank the distinguished Senator from Connecticut, who has been such a clarion voice…

I rise to begin the debate in support of 22 resolutions of disapproval and ask my colleagues to join me in asserting congressional prerogative over arms sales to foreign governments and to say unequivocally that our security partnership…

with that and with the chairman's agreement that we will have a markup of these two bills moving forward, I thank the distinguished chairman, and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma. National Defense…

I am very pleased that we have been able to work on an agreement on the unanimous consent request that the majority leader just propagated that would provide for votes on these 22 joint resolutions of disapproval over the administration's…

the resolution I have just asked for the discharge of would disapprove the administration's sale of precision-guided munitions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia--weapons they have used in the killing of an untold number of innocent civilians…