I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Blanca Gaytan Farfan, be granted privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I want to take a moment to recognize a wonderful member of my team who, after 9 years, will be leaving us at the end of this week. For more than 9 years, Jodi Niehoff has been the heart and soul of our operation. She has been our…

They are in compliance with the JCPOA in your opinion?

I stress this because quite a bit of time has passed, and we do not even have the first leg of the journey.

So at the time of this statement, North Korea was unwilling to reach the language we wanted, the complete, irreversible elimination.

As of this time, we have heard report after report that Iran is in compliance.

thank you so much to my colleague from Oregon for his remarks on taking on the systematic corruption of dark money as it relates to this nomination.

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

the most important words of our Constitution are the first three--``We the People.'' It is the mission statement of our Nation--a nation of the people, by the people, for the people, as President Lincoln so eloquently stated, not a nation…

I think it is time for an agonizing reappraisal of our relationship with Turkey.

I never anticipated I would be alive to hear an American President attacking NATO as a problem rather than an asset.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Rohingya Crisis

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

somebody once said: What is the use of a house if you don't have a tolerable planet to put it on? That is a question that we should all grapple with in this Chamber. It is a question that propels my colleagues from the Environment…

I come to the floor to talk about two things. The first is that this Saturday will be the 1-year anniversary of the beginning of a horrific genocide against the Rohingya in the country of Myanmar. This genocide was preplanned. All kinds of…

If America is to be respected in the world, our president needs to speak to the issue.

Seize the opportunity with this 1-year anniversary. Seize this opportunity to release the report. Seize this opportunity to provide more aggressive sanctions.

I wanted to start with a letter that a group of Senators sent on August 16th.

That is something that certainly can be addressed within the existing law?

To expedite the process.

I thought perhaps from your testimony that the majority of the 401 certification delays were the result of incomplete applications being submitted?

Many components that might not be directly covered by just the word 'discharge' or at least there would be a huge amount of lawsuits and adjudication to try to determine what discharge and how broad that is?

this was a deliberate decision by Kelly, by Steve Miller, by the President, by Jeff Sessions to inflict harm on children in order to send a political message.

the administration basically lied to the American public, said people aren't showing up for their hearings, so we have to do something dramatically different, that is to treat people as criminals.

the entire premise of this program is completely flawed. The administration for publicity said this is catch and release, that people don't show up to their hearings. But the administration shut down the family case management program.