I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (At the request of Mr. McConnell, the following statement was…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of our Democratic colleagues. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following Senate resolutions, which were submitted earlier today: S. Res. 260, S. Res. 261, and S. Res. 262. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 37, S. 188. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 188) to prohibit…

I am disturbed that the Office of Management and Budget has declined our invitation to appear before the Subcommittee on this timely subject.

Well, OMB has promised us that they are in the process of that.

Why do we not consolidate agencies and Federal departments that perform similar duties?

It takes 450 days to hire one person.

This conversation will be a conversation.

They are right now because of hurricane relief.

Leadership commitment can overcome a lot of existing barriers.

We have a bill called 'The Taxpayers Right-to-Know' that passed unanimously in the House and over here is being held up by, I think, five of my colleagues that do not want to do it.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's hearing entitled 'Examining OMB's Memorandum on the Federal Workforce Part II: Expert Views on OMB's Ongoing Government-wide Reorganization.'

So Members of Congress beating up people they have never met is not appropriate.

We need to be able to hear their input, what they are seeing in the direction they will go.

Congress should still be involved in the engagement of how the oversight is done.

I think, as Rachel suggested and we proposed during the Bush Administration, an independent commission to make recommendations that get an up-or-down vote in the Congress.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from California…

I would like to tell my colleagues a couple of stories. We are going to talk about what is happening in healthcare right now. There is the healthcare that is happening here in this room in the debate that is ongoing that started months…

That is a significant cost and a loss to the taxpayer.

We cannot just ignore that and continue to be able to pile on debt and assume there is no consequence.

Forty percent of the banks in Oklahoma no longer make mortgage loans any more, 40 percent and rising because of the QM rules that have been put on them.

the statement has been made by OIG and by Office of Special Counsel that this was not an individual violation of the Hatch Act

The endorsed candidates have proven themselves to be in agreement with the objectives to the NALC to hold and strengthen and protect USPS.

there was a direction here that cost the USPS, which is obviously struggling financially