Mr. President, earlier this week and last week I joined a number of my colleagues on the floor and spoke at length about the need for our fellow Senators on the other side of the aisle to do something simple--to do their jobs. The…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Pennsylvania for his leadership. Various doctors may not realize they are prescribing duplicative opioid painkillers. We have done the lock-in with Medicaid. In many States, it has worked. This is a…

Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for…

Mr. President, I appreciate the comments from my friend from West Virginia and his work on this issue that has hit West Virginia and, particularly, southeast Ohio kind of first and hardest. But it has spread to so many other places and…

Madam President, in the last 2 minutes I would like to say a few more words about the Supreme Court vacancy. Four former U.S. attorneys from Ohio, Washington State, California, and Virginia published an op-ed that went around the country…

A woman in New Carlisle wrote to me saying: There was a time when I could not find full-time employment, I did not have health insurance, and I also was not eligible for any assistance from the government. My husband and I were newly…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent for an additional 5 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, this week the Supreme Court--which is lacking a ninth Justice for the foreseeable future for reasons that most of the American public doesn't understand since my fellow Senators--my Republican colleagues--simply refuse to…

I close just begging, urging, imploring, and beseeching my colleagues on the Republican side to move forward on the Supreme Court nominee. We have not had a Supreme Court vacancy for as long as a year since the Civil War because we were at…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Madam President, the sudden passing and tragic death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia leaves us with a vacancy to fill on our country's highest Court, but it shouldn't lead us to a yearlong political standoff. Article II, section 2, of…

Mr. President, the crisis in Flint, MI, is a tragedy that was entirely preventable. This week we have a chance to do something about it. Senator Stabenow and Senator Peters from Michigan have submitted an amendment that I hope, when we go…