Clearly, the intent of the bill is not being exercised here, and so I really want to thank you...

I appreciate that because we can't seek to have great teachers in classrooms if we don't have great professional development.

We just want to hear all those voices, especially the voices of educators.

I've often said that if kids learn more now, they'll earn more later, and that's not just a rhyme, it's literally the truth.

Thanks very much. I appreciate Senator Whitehouse and Senator Collins convening this hearing.

Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.

I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without…

I rise to speak on the Recovering Missing Children Act. This bill provides law enforcement with an important tool to help find missing or exploited children. Each year more than 200,000 children are abducted by their parents or other close…

I thank the Senator from Connecticut. The question I pose will center on not just why we are here, what the two measures are we are hoping to get a vote on, but why we seek to have support for those--first, to have support to get a vote in…

For anyone within the sound of my voice related to Senator Murphy, my question is a basic one, but I think it is fundamental to his efforts. I will address Senator Murphy and say that your efforts and the efforts of those you have worked…

I thank the Senator from Connecticut who has taken the floor to take a stand for those who lost their lives in Orlando and so many other places. I know he has lived through that horror, representing folks in Connecticut, who went through…

That gap, which is what we're talking about here, and the $82 billion--and thank you for introducing the legislation, because that would close that gap for roughly all children under the age of 4 at 200 percent of poverty or below.

Low-income families simply cannot afford what it costs to access high-quality child care in this country.

I would like to thank Senator Casey for his leadership on introducing legislation that mirrors the spirit of the President's proposal to expand high-quality care to all infants and toddlers from low-and moderate-income families.

I have introduced legislation called the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act.

Giving these same companies billions of dollars in tax breaks, to me, makes no financial sense.

I believe it is well past time for us to reconsider some of these choices.

I think it is intellectually misleading--I will leave it at that, not to be harsher--that there is no consideration of the down side.

We saw in New Jersey after Sandy that Princeton University was able to keep the lights on through its resiliency program, but large parts of the state did not, including our mass transit system.

I rise this afternoon to talk about the horror of Orlando, and I know so many Members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle have been thinking about those who lost their lives and talking about this horror that once again has impacted…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mass Shooting in Orlando

We need to provide an extension for the 13 clean energy tax credits that will expire at the end of this year.

today we pay tribute to Sergeant Robert Wilson III of the Philadelphia Police Department, who sacrificed his life to protect innocent civilians during an armed robbery at a store called GameStop in north Philadelphia in March 2015…

I wish to first say that we appreciate the message Senator Isakson just gave to the Senate and, by extension, to the country. We are grateful for those remarks in the lead-up to Memorial Day. =========================== NOTE…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S3157, May 25, 2016, at the top of the first column, the following language appears: Mr. TOOMEY. Madam President…