Reserving the right to object, I didn't actually get clarity on whether he will open the floor for amendments when he will bring this rule change to the floor--whether it will be open in the sense that when one amendment is completed, a…

Reserving the right to object, I will, in fact, make this the last time I reserve the right to object, simply to make the point that there are many ideas for improving this Chamber that have not had due consideration. My colleague has…

the most important words in our Constitution are the first three. We all know them: ``We the people,'' written in supersize font so we don't forget what our Constitution is all about--government, as Lincoln put it, of, by, and for the…

will the minority leader yield for a question? Mr. McCONNELL. I still have the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader has the floor.

Reserving the right to object, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon is recognized.

The majority leader has said he is going to put a rule change on the floor, and we are going to return to historical norm. The historical norm has been that when such issues are on the floor, amendments will be allowed. Does the majority…

I understand that this week it is the intention of the majority leader to put on the floor of this Chamber a resolution that is related to taking on the enormous challenge of climate chaos. If I just heard that announced, I would say…

I speak now to a bill we will introduce this Wednesday, the Equality Act. The Equality Act will be introduced by a group of us in the Senate and by another group led by Congressman Cicilline in the House. It is an appropriate moment for us…

it was a powerful opportunity to join my colleague from Delaware, Senator Carper, in traveling to the Northern Triangle of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador--to try to understand more about the dynamics in that region…

I am pleased to be here on the floor with my colleague from New Mexico, who has been a champion for restoring our democracy, working year after year over the last decade toward that vision, and presenting tonight superb comments on the…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Mariah Shriner, may have privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Henry David Thoreau asked: What is the use of a home if you don't have a tolerable planet to put it on? We are here at a unique moment in human history when the planet is threatened. It is not just our local stream that has been polluted…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Cyrus Johnson, be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Henry David Thoreau once said: ``What use is a home if you don't have a tolerable planet to put it on?'' We might just expand that question to say what use is anything if we destroy our planet because it is the only one we have. There is…

how do we make our communities, our States, our Nation, and our planet better for our children? How do we make it better for our children's children and their children? Isn't that the task we have in the U.S. Senate, to make things work…

I want to begin by recognizing two members of my team who will be leaving at the end of this week--Tricia Peebles and Adrian Deveny--who are on to new adventures and new opportunities to make the world a better place. Tricia has been with…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribute to Tricia Peebles and Adrian Deveny

I'm sick and tired of this administration lying to the American people.

We have thousands of children locked up in a series of child prisons across the country, migrant children.

The importance of this, and the reason of all the lies the administration has told, the reason I really wanted to kind of put this one in the spotlight and say this is not OK is because of the deep damage to thousands and thousands of…

the most important words of our Constitution are the first three: ``We the People.'' Those three words, written in big, bold, beautiful script, convey the mission of our Constitution. We are a nation, as Abraham Lincoln opined, ``of the…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Celine Wolff, have privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

the freshmen of the House are speaking a lot of common sense in this letter. They are saying: Here we are, looking at bills that the Senate passed under Republican leadership and that the House has passed under Democratic leadership. That…

I was just over in the Russell Senate Office Building, and a group of freshmen from the House intercepted me and handed me this piece of paper, this document, and asked that it be made part of the Record of the Senate, and I have come to…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Without objection, it is so ordered. Government Funding