I will be very brief. I want to join Senator Rubio, if I can have 2 minutes as well, before going to Senator Merkley. THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the modified request is agreed to. The Senator from Wyoming…

I came to the floor in the first instance to support Senator Boxer's unanimous consent request on the U.S.-Israel strategic partnership, which, as she has pointed out, has-- in this institution we do not very often get 81 Members to agree…

I thank my distinguished colleague from Oregon for his courtesy in allowing me to do so. I agree with everything my colleague from Florida Senator Rubio has said about this issue, and I appreciate his leadership alongside with us. He has…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 4 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I will close on this. Look, the reality is that if each of these ambassadors was going to be brought up and had to go through cloture and go through the whole process of time or the debate time that would be attributed to each one of them…

I rise in support of all of the career Foreign Service officers whose nominations have been held up in the Chamber until there is a crisis somewhere in the world, until there is a Presidential or Vice Presidential trip to some part of the…

I don't know about nuclear options, but I do know about national security. When we have objections to some career ambassadors--I am not even talking about other nominees who are equally as important to places in the world where we face a…

It is pretty ridiculous to toll the statute of limitations before there is even a proof of loss.

If you need legislative responses, you let me know, and we will be deducing our own.

Well, I hope you will look at those 270 cases that you, from my perspective, arbitrarily and capriciously decided: They did not hit a specific deadline.

We have got to end the low-balling. We have got to live by the law.

there is, my words, low-balling taking place. And whether that low-balling is intentional or out of concern of the consequences of the way the program is stacked, it just simply is unacceptable.