I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 55. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination. The legislative…

I move to proceed to legislative session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion. The motion was agreed to. ____________________

I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows Cloture Motion We, the undersigned…

I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 53. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination. The legislative…

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

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

In order to place the bills on the calender under the provisions of rule XIV, I would object to further proceeding en bloc. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection having been heard, the bills will be placed on the calendar…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:30 p.m., adjourned until Monday, 29, 2021, at 11 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now proceed to S. Res. 109. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant…

I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations: Calendar Nos. 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, and all nominations placed on the Secretary's desk in the Air Force, Army…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

Finally, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum calls for the cloture motions filed today, March 25, be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

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 being heard, the bill will be read on the next legislative day…

now on the Levine nomination, today, the Senate will confirm the nomination of Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania's top health official, to be the next Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Biden administration has brought many…

I understand there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bill by title for the second time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 937) to…

in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I would object to further proceeding. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection has been heard. The bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________

When U.S. businesses can compete and win in this growing global market, the real winners are U.S. workers.

a week ago the Nation reeled in horror as a deranged gunman shot and killed eight people at three different locations across the Atlanta area. Six of them were Asian-American women. Just 6 days later, another shooting. Ten people were shot…

I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 1868), to prevent…

on one more issue, I was just over at the Rules Committee hearing. It is the first hearing I attended as majority leader because it was about S. 1, so important. And there, I showed--I showed my anger and frustration at what Republican…

I would like to ask my Republican colleagues, why are you so afraid of democracy? Why instead of trying to win voters over that you lost in the last election, are you trying to prevent them from voting?

The most reprehensible effort off all might be found in Georgia where Republicans recently passed a bill to eliminate early voting on Sunday -- on Sunday, a day when many church-going African-Americans participate in voter drives known as…

If one political party believes that when you lose an election, the answer isn’t to win more votes, but rather to try and prevent the other side from voting, we have an existential threat to democracy on our hands.

This is infuriating. I would like to ask my Republican colleagues, why are you so afraid of democracy or some of these voter suppression laws in Georgia and other republican states? Smack of Jim Crow, rearing its ugly head once again.

I’ve already committed to bringing universal background checks legislation to the floor of the Senate, this Senate will be different. The Senate is going to debate and address the epidemic of gun violence in this country.