I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Dr. Agnes Varis

first, I know the Presiding Officer cares a lot about Dr. Agnes Varis as well, and as soon as I finish speaking, I will take the chair so the Presiding Officer may say a few words about her. I would like to say some words about a great…

I will ask one more question. If we are unable to come to a compromise on the leader's bill, there is virtually no time, no matter what the House does, for the Senate to do anything before default is over. That means our Republican…

I thank our leader. Mr. President, the leader outlined it well. The House, for all its machinations, delays, and struggles, is pursuing a path to nowhere because their bill will not pass, will not become law. Fifty-three of the fifty-three…

I see that the minority leader is here, and I thank the majority leader for yielding.

That means this bill the leader will put on the floor tonight is the last train out of the station, and it also means, given the rules of the Senate, that only with bipartisan cooperation can we do it. So we are hoping and praying that our…

That is absolutely the fact. My colleague from Iowa is exactly correct. The bottom line is, yes. What we are talking about with the debt ceiling is debts we have already incurred. No American family has the luxury, once they sign up for a…

Again, my colleague from Iowa is on the money. There needs to be balance. The President has stressed this. I think everyone on our side has stressed this. We do have a serious deficit problem and a serious debt problem. We have to deal…

I thank my colleague from Iowa for the question. I concur in his findings. I haven't found one either. Democrats know we have different views on this side of the aisle, and many of us would write deficit-reduction bills differently than…

I wish to underscore what the leader has said. The bottom line is very simple. Speaker Boehner is busy twisting arms right now to try to get his bill passed through the House, but it is a futile gesture because that bill is not going to…

First, I wish to thank my good friend and colleague from Maryland for her great words. She comes from the heart of Maryland and the heart of America. Very few people I have met in politics in my many years in this endeavor have an…

I believe there are two issues that will determine America's global competitiveness for the 21st century, and this is in the long term: Education and immigration.

What we need to do is two things: we need to invest in education, and we need to address immigration.

It bothers me dearly that Lady Liberty's message of welcome no longer resonates.

I prefer comprehensive and I am still working that way.

we do not want our immigration laws to have immigrants displace or take away jobs from Americans.

That just makes no sense.

Famous Republicans like Presidents Reagan and Bush understood immigration.

The Bosnian community, as I understand it, has 6,000 people or so in Utica. They have revitalized the downtown.

Now that migrant workers are fleeing Georgia, perfectly healthy crops have been rotting in the fields.

If we do not enact an immigration policy that continues to attract the world's best minds, we will cease to be the world's economic leader.

Unfortunately, our broken immigration system actually discourages the world's best and brightest minds from coming to America to create jobs.

It threatens our economy. It threatens our way of life. And it simply makes no sense.

The entire State of Georgia welcomes the immigrants and their contribution economically and socially.

The reality is this law will not solve the immigration problem in the State. It will only devastate local economies.