I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from New York is recognized. ____________________

the big issue everyone is talking about is gasoline prices. Obviously, they are a scourge on average families and on our national economy. There are many long-term solutions we debate: the pipeline, incentives for green energy, more…

first, let me compliment my colleague from Louisiana for her diligence, her hard work. I don't think anybody effectively delivers more for her State in this Chamber than the Senator from Louisiana. I can assure you, knowing her, now that…

I rise today to praise the majority and minority leaders for coming together to make sure we get our pending judicial nominees confirmed in a timely manner. Today, the Senate is back on track to do what we have always done for decades…

Senators Schumer and Toomey have introduced S. 1933, the Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act.

If the House package looks familiar, it is because it includes several proposals already advancing in the Senate.

It is the fourth time in recent months that this Committee or one of our Subcommittees has considered the issue of capital formation and the legislative proposals being discussed here today.

The House package, for instance, borrows from a bill proposed by Senator Toomey and myself that would provide a transition period for emerging-growth companies to make it easier for these companies to go public.

We are glad to see the House endorsing a few of our ideas.

I strongly support Senator Schumer and Senator Toomey in the effort to create an on-ramping for public market for emerging companies like mine.

I did not know Marie personally, as my friend and colleague from Rhode Island did. But his words, his passion, his emotion allow us all to know her a little bit better. Even just reading the newspaper accounts, she was a remarkable person…

But I have heard from some investors and from some funds that, given the low margin that money market funds pay, it would just end the business more or less.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate it.

We learned that the hard way.

Do you think money market funds play a useful role, though, in the economy and we should try to keep them going?

At this time when you have said the economy is moving forward but at a slow pace, taking away infrastructure money might hurt the economy, adding infrastructure money would certainly help the economy.

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I wish to thank my colleagues from California, New York, New Hampshire, and Washington State for the great job they have done. Before I speak about our judicial nominee, I wish to say I join them in their remarks and their feelings. This…

I thank the chairman and the Judiciary Committee for reporting Jesse Furman out without dissent. Furman is a truly excellent figure. He clerked for the Supreme Court, has the support of all the clerks with whom he served, including those…

today I rise to join my colleagues, Senator Klobuchar and Senator Grassley, to discuss an epidemic overtaking our country: synthetic drugs. I wish to compliment both of my colleagues. Each of us has been working on this issue in different…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from New York.