it is the majority leader's intention to resume the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 400, S. 3187, the Food and Drug Administration user fees legislation, when the Senate convenes tomorrow. At 2:15 the Senate will begin consideration of…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:53 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at 10 a.m…

Senator Jack Reed from Rhode Island is one of the few graduates from West Point in this body and served his country in so many ways and still does. But I think about Jack Reed when I think about what happened with the GI Bill after World…

I thank the Senator. I appreciate that explanation because this is a tax loophole that almost anybody who is fair-minded about this sees as a giveaway to some. They call it the Newt Gingrich-John Edwards tax loophole, to be bipartisan…

I appreciate the work of the Senator from Rhode Island and Senator Harkin. Of course, Senator Reed has been working on this issue for months and months. I am still amazed that the Senate refuses time and again and the House refuses to do…

legislation that facilitates such research with a particular focus on domestic manufacturing, like Senator Sherrod Brown's Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act of 2009, can help maintain our competitive…

I wish to continue to emphasize the remarks Senator Lautenberg made. I have not been here that long, but what I have seen happen in the last 2 or 3 years where judges appointed by the President of the United States are slow-walked or just…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:42 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 10 a.m…

It is the majority leader's intention to resume the motion to proceed to the Export-Import Bank reauthorization bill, legislation particularly important to my State, tomorrow morning, and equally divide the first hour, with the majority…

I rise to discuss the Export- Import Bank reauthorization's importance to strengthen manufacturing and creating jobs in places such as my home State of Ohio. Ohio is the third leading manufacturing State in the country. Only Texas, which…

I understand that H.R. 5652 has been received from the House and is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title for the first time. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 5652) to…

I ask for its second reading and object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 15, 2012; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 10, 2012, at 10 a.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 10, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 10, 2012, at 10 a.m. in room SD 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a roundtable entitled ``Medicare…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 10, 2012, at 10 a.m., to hold a hearing entitled, ``NATO: Chicago and Beyond.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet, during the session of the Senate, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Beyond Mother's Day: Helping the Middle Class Balance Work and…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on May 10, 2012, at 10 a.m. in room SD 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct an executive business meeting…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 10, 2012, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I want to join Senator Reed of Rhode Island, who just spoke very persuasively about the need to freeze interest rates for Stafford loans for college students in America. He also spoke, I thought very convincingly, about closing a tax…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I come to the floor to share some letters I have received about the importance of freezing the 3.4 percent Stafford subsidized college loan program. It is important because there are some 380,000 students in my home State of Ohio alone who…

In essence, they are not too big to manage.

I wish to follow up on Senator Schumer's call to action, if you will, because it appears that things that used to be bipartisan, whether it was the debt ceiling or the Transportation bill or a whole host of other things, has become far too…