Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Jessica Hagens-Jordan, an intern in my office, be granted the privilege of the floor for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about an issue that affects a part of our Constitution. The Constitution begins with these three words: ``We the people.'' You can talk in any townhall across America and ask ``What are the first three…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Without objection, it is so ordered. Filling the Supreme Court Vacancy

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I am rising to speak to this issue from a simple American citizen point of view. The American citizen wants the right to know what is in their food. They want to know how many calories; they want to know…

Thank you. I appreciate the Senator's presentation. This Monsanto DARK Act 2.0--this new version--says to the States that they no longer have the right to respond to consumers' interest in providing a consumer-friendly label that alerts…

I thank the Chair. So we have these affects that scientific documents are showing. So when people come to this floor and say that it is OK to suppress the consumers' right to know because consumers have no legitimate concerns, that there…

Mr. President, I wish to continue sharing some information about Monsanto and the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act that is on the Senate floor being debated right now. The reason I want to turn to this is this is such an egregious…

Mr. President, this debate on the Monsanto DARK Act, which stands for Denying Americans the Right to Know, centers around two basic propositions. The first proposition is that it would be chaotic to have 50 States with 50 different…

I thank so much my colleague from Montana for being such a clear and powerful voice on this issue of freedom, of American consumers' rights, of States' rights, and for his solid opposition to this Monsanto DARK Act--Deny Americans the…

I think my colleague summed it all up in the word ``freedom''--the freedom to choose. And that freedom to choose--if it is between wild fish and farmed fish, we facilitate that by giving the information on the package. If it is the freedom…

Well, this taking away the right to know--it isn't like the right to know some detail about how your car was manufactured. As the Senator put it, this is about the food you put into your mouth. This is about the food we feed our families…

The majority leader has put this bill on the floor, and it has not even gone through a committee hearing because this is a new creation that we have just seen for the first time last night. Furthermore, it has been put on the floor the…