The issue is, Are--Do we have a confident structure to evaluate those risks?

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for such time as I may consume. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

This was a letter I received in 2011 when we started raising the issue of duplication and making tough choices so that we could continue to provide benefits, we could continue to create and support a safety net for those who were truly…

I also ask unanimous consent to use an oversized poster. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Government Waste and Duplication

there has been a lot made of the sequester and the things that may or may not happen associated with it. Having spent the last 8 years looking at the Federal Government, I wrote the Secretary of Agriculture a letter this week outlining…

with a $16.5 trillion national debt, the Federal Government needs to spend taxpayer dollars more efficiently and reduce costs during these tough fiscal times. In 2011, the Federal Government owned nearly 660,000 vehicles. Although the size…

The final point I would make is the following: A little more than 3 years ago we passed an amendment that I offered that forced the Government Accountability Office--the government's accounting office--and the Comptroller General to…

I want to spend a few minutes this afternoon talking about what is going to happen on March 1, something we have known is going to happen for 18 months. Nobody really wanted it to happen this way, but I want to make the case if we give the…

I ask to speak as if in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I rise today in strong support of the nomination of Magistrate Judge Robert Bacharach of Edmond, OK, to be the next judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Bacharach is well-qualified for this position and has received…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was…

The people who oppose it oppose it on the grounds they might not get as much money unless they actually keep a woman from getting raped twice--once by the system we set up and once by their attacker. If Senators vote against this, what…

Masquerading as tax cuts, many of these programs are no different from any other Federal program that spends taxpayer money.

I am firmly committed to getting a compromise bill that will pass both chambers and doing it forthright.

this is simply an amendment that says if a woman is raped and there is an article of indictment against the rapist, she ought to have a right to know the sexually transmitted diseases that rapist carries. I reserve the remainder of my…

I do not think anybody has a tougher job than what the Postmaster General has, and the fact is the post office is in trouble.

this is an amendment that follows GAO recommendations with which the Justice Department agreed in terms of an audit on the duplication within their program. As a matter of fact, I have the data where the Justice Department actually…

This is an amendment that is critical to my home State of Oklahoma and every State that has Native American tribes. Oklahoma now has the largest number of Native Americans of any State. I believe we are at 36 recognized Federal tribes in…

I would also like to comment on the Trafficking Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2012, which is the Leahy amendment. When we first started working on this issue, it was 2001 and $31.8 million, with one or two Federal agencies involved…

this amendment is a perfecting amendment from the last Violence Against Women Act, which I coauthored with Senator Biden--then-Senator Biden--and Senator Specter. When a woman is raped, right now in our country she gets raped two, three…

I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To reaffirm the inalienable rights of every American citizen…

I wish to spend some time outlining some amendments I have to the Violence Against Women Act, but I also ask unanimous consent to use oversized charts, and even with the size I have, on the one chart, you can barely see it, in terms of the…

I ask unanimous consent to call up amendment No. 15. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the amendment. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Coburn] proposes an…

I ask unanimous consent to set the pending amendment aside and call up amendment No. 13. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the amendment. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator…

one of the things the VAWA legislation fails to do is to address the duplication and overlap within the very grant programs and nongrant programs of VAWA operated by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human…