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…

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…

Thank you, Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to continue for another 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

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…

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…

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…

Now we have gone through a period where the President has said we are going to suspend leases of our citizen-owned coal to study exactly this issue, exactly this issue that Senator Wyden and I were raising.

I wanted to start by noting how important dredging is and the maintenance of jetties to the coast of Oregon.

What is the impact of the dust on the communities? What is the impact of the trains splitting the community in half for long periods each day? What is the impact of burning this coal on our broader objectives to be stewards of the planet…

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 overreach of the…

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 labeling standards…

I ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with my colleague from Montana. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I object. Reserving the right to object, I would say to the majority leader that we are about to enter a topic where people have strong opinions, and they should be able to speak what amount they desire and not be limited to 10 minutes…

So, you would use your position to say, let us do what Congress asked, and sometimes that means, if you will, that a rule is not going to go through 10,000 reiterations.

I rise to address the motion that is on the floor right now, which is a motion to adopt an amendment that is essentially a new version of the Monsanto DARK Act. Now, DARK is an acronym that stands for ``Denying Americans the Right to…

So now I have to pull my cell phone out of my pocket, and I have to find this number that is probably too small for me to read. I have to turn on my phone and hope there is a cell connection in the store, which there may or may not be. I…

Is it, Ms. Fairfax, appropriate that the SEC has failed to address this fundamental conflict of interest and has failed to follow the law written by Congress?

And I certainly don't object to the Senator doing that. But as we go into morning business, there is no need to put a 10-minute limit to accomplish that. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period…

I am going to turn to the issue of whether owners of companies have a right to know how that company is spending their money, the owners' money, on political activity.

I thank the Chair. Imagine these are products that are in the grocery store. So I, the consumer, am going down the aisle, and I say: I want to know whether these contain high fructose corn syrup. Well, I turn it over and look at the…

But, there is no rule for disclosure in this area and the SEC has refused to do it. Is it not a valid interest of an owner to know how political speech is being conducted with their money?

today I would like to address a very important issue, which is the right for American citizens to know what is in their food. I am going to be talking about the topic of genetically modified ingredients in food. I will be pointing out that…

I ask that my intern, Anastasiya Parvankin, be conveyed the privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I would like to encourage your team to help advocate for taking the concept that you all have elevated in the regulations, working with Congress to make it a permanent part of the law.

today I rise to address the responsibility of the Senate in its advice and consent role under the Constitution. Of course, the President's duty is to nominate a Justice when the vacancy exists for a Justice, and that responsibility is very…