today, the House of Representatives will take up a motion to terminate the state of emergency proclaimed by President Trump. For many reasons, the measure should pass with bipartisan support. First, Members of both parties know there is no…

a word on today's vote on women's reproductive rights: The bill the Senate will vote on shortly is carefully crafted to target, intimidate, and shut down reproductive healthcare providers. Doctors across this country--Democratic doctors…

the President is on his way to Thailand for a second summit with Chairman Kim of North Korea. It is in all of our interests for the President to achieve a diplomatic resolution with North Korea that achieves a stable peace and the…

in a similar vein, on China, President Trump announced he would be delaying the imposition of higher tariffs on March 1, in the hopes of coming to a larger trade agreement. This is all well and good if the Trump administration ultimately…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

before Congress went out of session 2 weeks ago, President Trump announced that he was declaring a national emergency to redirect funds to the construction of a border wall. It was a lawless act, a gross abuse of power, and an attempt by…

Finally--and this time it is finally, I say to my good friend from Nebraska--I turn the attention of my colleagues to a harrowing fact: We are vastly approaching the point where more people will have died from exposure to toxic chemicals…

Even the President himself, who is now declaring an emergency, halfway through his meandering speech proclaiming the emergency, said: ``I didn't need to do this . . . but I'd rather do it [build the wall] much faster.'' If there was ever a…

first, let me congratulate the Chamber on the overwhelming vote for the appropriations bill. It is good news that we passed it by a lot of votes, and I hope the House does it by a lot, too. I need to comment on the news that President…

the Senate will soon vote on the agreement by the conference committee to keep the government open. The agreement was a product of a lot of hard work and long nights and weekends by members of the conference committee and their staffs. I…

later today we will vote on the agreement by the conference committee to keep the government open, as well as provide additional border security. Once again, I applaud the members of the conference committee and their staffs. They were the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Florida be given 3 minutes to speak on the resolution of his colleague from Florida, and then I speak on leader time, to be followed immediately by Senators Whitehouse, Schatz, and Merkley. The…

let me thank the chair of the Energy Committee, the senior Senator from Alaska, for the wonderful work she always does around here. She has the respect of Members on both sides of the aisle. She tries to do the right thing and ends up…

we have a clear and obvious way to avoid another government shutdown in 48 hours. The conference committee has done its job. It has forged a bipartisan agreement that would keep the government open through September as well as provide…

on another matter, late last week, I had the privilege of addressing an audience at the Newseum about the current challenges facing the free press in America. I ask unanimous consent that my remarks be printed in the Record after my…

last night, the country heard some good news. The members of the conference committee announced a tentative agreement to keep the government open past Friday as well as provide additional border security. It was welcome news. All on the…

I don't know if the Judiciary Committee voted yet, but if they haven't, they will vote shortly on the nomination of William Barr. I knew Mr. Barr when he was Attorney General and when he was general counsel to Verizon--that is a New York…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Recognition of the Minority Leader The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader is recognized. State of…

last night President Trump had the opportunity to bring our parties together and offer the Congress and the country a new vision for the next 2 years of divided government. President Trump squandered the opportunity with a forgettable and…

later this evening, in front of a joint session of Congress, President Trump will report on the state of our Union. As is tradition, the President will that say the state of our Union is strong, but the American people know the truth…

tomorrow, President Trump will belatedly report on the state of the Union before a joint session of Congress. The reason for the delay, of course, is the 35-day government shutdown that President Trump precipitated as an attempt to extract…

one other issue--I mentioned earlier that one of the major consequences of the Trump tax bill was the explosion of stock buybacks. In 2018 alone--just 2018--U.S. companies announced plans to repurchase more than $1 trillion of their own…

I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Braun). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays…

hundreds of thousands of Federal workers are, thank God, returning to work this week to tackle a backlog that has been building for over a month. Over that time, the U.S. economy suffered a loss of $11 billion, according to the nonpartisan…

he is putting you and your colleagues in an untenable position and hurting the national interests in the process. You must find a way to make that clear to him.