I support the Gender Integration Study as a necessary intermediate step to opening closed positions and occupations.

Is the expertise of service women, and in particular of those women who have already participated in combat operations... being sought out and utilized to inform this process?

I would like to put into the record a letter that Senator McCain and I, Senator Gillibrand, Senator Coons, Senator Blumenthal, and Senator Ayotte wrote to the President urging a fulsome and robust response to the crisis that has developed…

I think it has been a very unfortunate episode.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

I rise today to join my colleagues from Louisiana and New Jersey--who know as well as anyone about all the struggle of rebuilding after a major disaster--in calling on the Senate to pass the Homeowners Flood Insurance Affordability Act…

Is there any group that is qualified to do it?

For the most at-risk, at-need, who do not have access to computers, for those communities, we have to make sure it is easily and readily accessible.

If the professional labels are not accurate and up-to-date, why would the FDA propose using those labels as the foundation for the patient medication information?

We strongly support Senator Gillibrand's Cody Miller Initiative for Safer Prescriptions Act, which would permit the Secretary of HHS to pursue this alternative pathway.

But I think that what that piece really shows is we need to test. We need to determine what essential information the patient needs.

I do hope you maintain a focus on actually having a paper pamphlet because for rural areas----

So we want to have you consider--heavy consideration--our concern.

I rise today to speak about my amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, an amendment known as the bipartisan Military Justice Improvement Act. I wish to start by thanking my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building. The Committee…

I ask unanimous consent that Maj. Aaron Jelinek, an Air Force officer currently serving as a defense fellow in Senator Begich's office, be granted the privileges of the floor during consideration of S. 1197, the National Defense…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 428A Russell Senate Office building to conduct a hearing…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on November 20, 2013, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct hearing entitled…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a…

I ask unanimous consent that my military fellow, Bridget Byrnes, be given floor privileges during the consideration of the national defense authorization bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room SD-215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 20, 2013, at 3:30 p.m. in room SD-366 of the…