a few days ago, our Nation stopped and remembered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is entirely appropriate for us to do so. It is a holiday set aside to be able not only to remember but to reflect and try to figure out: Where are we now…

I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, all postcloture time on the House message to accompany S. 139 expire at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, January 18. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so…

This Committee would have an expectation that if there are things you do not have access to, that you need access to for oversight, that you would come back to us.

That was actually my next question. Is there cooperation with other States and sharing that information?

Obviously, there was a question on cost on that for physicians.

I do not think that diverted buprenorphine is becoming a recreational drug causing new cases of addiction.

The existence of this black market for buprenorphine has more to do with the fact that we are not making that treatment available to the people who need it.

In Oklahoma, there is currently a physician going through the process right now that saw 90 patients a day and was writing narcotics 'scripts to almost every one of them as they came through.

Thank you for stepping up and going through this very long, difficult process, because our Nation needs people to both be good counsel for the intelligence community and to be good inspectors general for that community.

once more I am coming to the floor to talk about the basic rules of the Senate and how we actually get on legislation. We have spent all of this week on four district court judicial nominations--the entire week, no legislation--because we…

it is an interesting conversation we can finally have about immigration. This has been that topic which has been discussed for a while but not settled. For 20 years, this body has talked about solving some of our immigration issues…

maybe my colleagues have heard through public and private conversations over the past year that I believe the Senate is moving gridlock from here on Capitol Hill to all across the city and across the Nation. The reason for that is how we…

we commend Senator Hatch for his efforts on this most important bill. We would like to ask for confirmation on a question that will be of considerable importance to millions of seniors housing residents, including those living in assisted…

We are not engaging on the issues.

Dual tracking is something that has been done by the Senate by unanimous consent before.

Let us make it permanent and say this is how we are going to continue to function.

cloture still should not be used--and his term was--except in extraordinary circumstances.

I think we should do it, and it is not just for this Congress.

Even 54 would be--that is a larger number of requests even for a cloture vote than the last four Congresses combined.

we can either do nominations or legislation, but the Senate cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.

Republicans stepped across the aisle in 2013, met with Democrats, and voted with 78 votes at the beginning of President Obama's term to say we are going to change this and to not do extended debate for all of this.

At the end of the day, if the pause on this is to say, well, let us wait 3 years and we will see if a Democratic President is elected and then we will want to talk about changing the rules on that, I do not see any particular enthusiasm…

I would guess somewhere around 150 fewer than President Obama at this point, maybe more than that, that President Trump has put out than President Obama.

The elimination, obviously, of the 60-vote protection, except for the Supreme Court, was done by a Congress controlled by Democrats.

The hardest hit right now would be State Department and DOD.