I thank you, Madam President, and I thank the assistant Democratic leader. Madam President, I rise in support of the international agreement designed to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. No one in this body trusts Iran. No one…

Imagine if that had happened. So we start off with 47 Republicans writing to the Ayatollah, saying, fundamentally: Don't negotiate with President Obama. We have seen now not a single one of my colleagues is in support of this agreement…

President Lincoln said: It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and it should not continue. Early in President Obama's…

I will be brief and turn it back to Senator Portman. We worked on this issue for a long time. We remember what happened with algal blooms 4 years ago. We remember just last year--1 year ago-- in August, 500,000 people in northwest Ohio…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 50th Anniversary of Medicare

Madam President, I remind my colleagues that tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of President Johnson traveling to Independence, MO, to be with President Truman, who in the 1940s had attempted to push through Congress legislation to expand…

Mr. President, we know that our generation, people in the Senate and in the House--people in their forties, fifties, and sixties--inherited from their parents and grandparents the greatest infrastructure in the history of the world. From…

I thank the Chair. I ask unanimous consent to be joined in a colloquy with Senator Merkley of Oregon and Senator Coons of Delaware. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, during the financial crisis, $13 trillion in household wealth was erased. Nine million jobs were lost, and 5 million Americans, 5 million families and individuals lost their homes. The financial services industry has bounced…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is in morning business.

Madam President, the Brown-Manchin amendment expands the full-service community schools model to schools across the country. Community schools are different from Promised Neighborhoods--two different approaches to what is a complex set of…

Mr. President, next Tuesday, July 21, is my wife's birthday, and it is also the 5-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act becoming law. Nearly two decades before that, Barings, an international bank, was destroyed by…