I understand that some of my colleagues on the other side are frustrated that whistleblowers have not come forward to speak to them. To be clear, I have communicated this request to the whistleblowers and have invited those whistleblowers…

to comment on my colleague from Massachusetts, he is correct that the tax credits for wind energy are expiring, but he is incorrect in his ascertainment that all tax credits are the same. The tax credits in the oil and gas industry are…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Massachusetts be recognized for 5 minutes and that I follow with my comments until I complete them. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Massachusetts.

there will be an objection to a rollcall vote because the opportunity to amend this bill has not been made available to Members of the Senate. I have two specific concerns with the bill--I am writing my whole letter right now on this…

I want to spend a few minutes talking about the bill we are going to vote on this afternoon. I am starting my 10th year in the Senate. During that period of time, my No. 1 goal in coming to the Senate was to try to right our financial ship…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Chai Rachel Feldblum, of the District of…

I have not researched it yet. I guarantee my colleague, I will research it, and I will find out. But the fact is, the leading cancer centers--Sloan-Kettering, the same thing--the leading cancer centers in this country probably could not…

Sure. One of those things is adverse selection, where sicker people raise the costs for everybody in the pool. But if, in fact, you looked at the Nation as a whole, and you had a law that said for any insurance company that is…

I enjoyed listening to my colleague for Texas. I will just comment to him, we are just beginning to see the series of untruths about what the President and his allies have said about this bill. I practiced medicine for 25 years, I…

I came to the floor to talk about several other things, but after hearing the majority leader and my colleague from Delaware, I think the revisionist history needs to stop. This place ran from 1917 under a process where any one Senator…

There are a lot of ideas. No. 1, our biggest problem is when we buy, we don't know what we want. So don't even start a proposal until we truly know what we want. That is No. 1. No. 2 is there has to be capital at risk by the person…

I would add one thing and then yield back to my colleagues. Inside the Defense Department, over the next 10 years, we are going to spend approximately $60 billion on things that have nothing to do with defense. Ten percent of that is…

I thank the Senator from Texas. I have worked on these areas for a long time. I too am a defense hawk. I am not often accused of that because I am critical of wasteful spending in the Pentagon. Let me outline for my colleagues that the…

First of all, the amendment we are talking about isn't pending because the tree has been filled. So we don't even have an amendment pending. Seventy-six times the majority leader has filled the tree, more than two times all the rest of the…

Reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The senior Senator from Oklahoma.

Reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The junior Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.

If people are interested, coburn.senate.gov, and they can get that information. Everything we have, every study we have published, all the waste, all the duplication. I have one other item. There is at least $200 billion a year that the…

I would be happy to yield. Mr. McCAIN. As my friend from Oklahoma knows well--and, by the way, I wish every American could have a chance to read this list of waste, fraud, and incredible misuse of Americans' tax dollars. But one of the…

I would like to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized.

This is a very important bill for our country in terms of authorizing the defense of this country. Many of us have relevant amendments--not amendments outside the scope of this bill, but relevant amendments--which will actually markedly…

I wish to express support moving forward with the Drug Quality and Security Act but want to express my concern that this legislation should not be used by the FDA to interfere with a doctor's ability to practice medicine and choose the…

it has now been about 1 year since the fungal meningitis outbreak last fall associated with the tainted sterile compounded drugs from the New England Compounding Center. This week on the floor of the Senate, we have a bill that is, in many…

if Homeland Security cannot apply the very rules to itself it is asking other agencies to comply with, what authority can they have in executing cybersecurity at other agencies if they do not even follow their own rules for their own…

I think he has the potential of being the best Secretary for this Department we have ever had.

I think it is important to have you do an analysis of that from where you stand with your experience and then get back to us within 6 months on what your thoughts are.