We are encouraged that the Senate mark on this year's appropriation bill provides funding for that RESPA program.

This is rural affordable housing across America. We are talking about 260,000 units, 14,000 projects, which got shortchanged.

Okay, I will look forward to future reports. Please keep me apprised.

So be specific. Are we going to backfill the missing payments from fiscal year 2015, the August and September payments that we failed to pay?

Yes, I know, choosing between your 50 children.

Are you planning to fill in the shortfall in 2015? Or are we going to leave these owners across America just hanging out there suffering this loss?

Much credit is owed to this subcommittee, particularly Ranking Member Merkley, for his leadership to enact the Rural Energy Savings Program Act.

I am on the floor of the Senate with my colleague from Oregon, Senator Wyden, to share a few thoughts about the tragedy that has occurred in our home State. One week ago today, a madman turned a quiet fall day in Roseburg, OR, into a day…

Shifting topics completely in the last 30 seconds here, e-cigarettes, we have seen a tremendous growth.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Dr. Collins, and your team, for the vision.

I think Senator Udall is absolutely accurate that this is the perfect moment to do it. When we first engaged in this dialogue, we reached out to our Republican colleagues. We held one-on-one meetings. We sought to champion this. What we…

Indeed, my experience in the Oregon State Legislature was dramatically different. In many ways, it was much more similar to the way I thought the Senate was operating when I was here in the 1970s and then working for Congress in the 1980s…

There are two former Members of the Senate right now who are working on a book that is coming out in January that will be addressing reform in the Senate, and that is Trent Lott and Tom Daschle. They have already issued a number of ideas…

I rise today with my friend and colleague, Tom Udall, the Senator from New Mexico, to talk about how to come together to fix our broken Senate and specifically to invite our colleagues from both sides of the aisle to engage in a dialogue…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Bipartisan Dialogue in the Senate

China has committed to deploying as much renewable energy in the next 15 years equal to all the electricity generated by the United States currently.

The Clean Power Plan is a subset of our Nation's efforts to control carbon dioxide.

There is a window of opportunity here that is important as part of this worldwide perspective, leave it in the ground.

They have also announced that they are launching a cap and trade system nationally in 2017.

If you are going to reduce enough, you have to leave a lot of the identified fossil fuel reserves... in the ground.

The temperature of the planet would still increase by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit.

It seems like nation after nation is saying that yes, as part of the global community, we have to take on a significant role in global stewardship.

today Pope Francis arrives in Washington. In 2 days, he will be speaking to a joint meeting of Congress, where he will undoubtedly remind us all to remember what he has termed ``the most abandoned.'' It was Pope Francis who said: ``I…

But in terms of the inspections you mentioned and the ability to kind of have teeth, that matters.

I am just going to cut to the chase and say I am glad it is going to have this guidance.