I ask unanimous consent that at 4:30 p.m. today, all postcloture time with respect to the Garcia nomination be considered expired and the Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Secure Rural Schools is not an entitlement program. It's a commitment our Federal Government made to rural forest communities and counties out of fairness and common sense.

We are not really seeing them as robustly supportive of defending a republic against a dictatorial aggression.

We are not really seeing them as robustly supportive of defending a republic against a dictatorial aggression.

It is important for us to really work diligently to support Zelensky's government in taking on corruption because it will be a kind of a cancer eating away at that support that they need from everyone in the world.

I think it particularly bothers me with democracy in South Africa as democracies.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I am pleased that we are having this amendment before us. It broadens the scope of the bill that we passed 12 years ago to enable nursing mothers to be able to return to work and breast-pump milk for the benefit of their children. For 12…

I am delighted to be here with my colleagues tonight and with the chair of our Rules Committee, Amy Klobuchar, who worked so hard and so intensely on the For the People Act and on the For the People Act 2.0, the Freedom to Vote Act, which…

I think the point you are making is that the landfills that you are shipping to are because you can't open similar landfills in Alaska.

Isn't the answer none?

We need strong, some call it extended producer responsibility, I call it packaging reduction and re-use requirements.

Certainly my door is open. I would like to work with you all.

Because I am probably the only person up here who has actually visited a chemical recycling site.

I think it also becomes clear from the testimony that there is a whole lot of plastic that is absolutely unnecessary to have in our economy.

If we can keep the PFAS out of products, that would be helpful as well.

If you go down to the cafeteria down below here, you will find that every piece of plastic that touches food is directed to be put into the waste stream, not into the recycling stream.

We need to move from being laggards to leaders.

Wouldn't it make more sense for us to support the producers by not having a 50 State pattern and actually having packing rules that support replacing plastics with corrugated cardboard or so forth, rather than doing it State by State?

Thank you very much for your testimony.

But I can't pick up a piece of package recycling that is going to exist in the universe for thousands of years to come and find out how much PFAS is in it, or phthalates are in it, because that disclosure is not required, isn't that right?

So what about the water bottles that we buy in the store?

We need to make sure that it is very lucrative for a fisherman, when they get near ghost gear, to haul it out of the water.

I appreciate your work and partnership over these last 2 years as we have examined a number of issues important to people here in the United States.

I will tell you, in Oregon it is much harder to return to stores now.