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Rick Santorum is a former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his conservative positions on social issues, including opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. During his tenure, Santorum was involved in various legislative efforts, including those related to healthcare and education reform. He gained national prominence during his 2012 presidential campaign, where he focused on issues such as economic growth and family values.
I understand there is an amendment at the desk. Let me explain what this amendment does before I ask consent it be adopted and the bill be passed, because I know people are going to hear that this bill passed and passed with an amendment…
I am joined today by Senator Pryor and Senator Dole to address an important issue that is all too often hidden from public view--the practice of modern day slavery. One of my political heroes is the 18th century British statesman, William…
I rise today to support S. 3549, the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2006, because it makes great strides in modernizing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, CFIUS, process. I firmly believe that…
The Senator from Nevada has an amendment which is going to take care of that situation. I will defer to him, if he would like to answer that question on how the amendment would work to preclude that problem. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time…
I will pick up where the Senator from Delaware left off and the Senator from Utah, also thanking John Walsh and his wife Reve for their tremendous contribution to our society but in particular for this piece of legislation. We all have to…
I call up amendment No. 4575 and ask for its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to setting aside the pending amendment? Without objection, the clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The…
let me say, on behalf of myself and Senator Kyl, we are working on two amendments that deal with the issue of border security. The first I am offering is an amendment to add 500 additional border guards to the underlying bill. The…
as Senator Kyl and I discussed earlier, this is an attempt to try to find an offset to basically increase the cap for this appropriations bill by finding an offset of a little over $200 million so we could fully fund the border security…
the Senator from Louisiana said it only concerns Canadian drugs. Let's take a look at what FDA said when they looked at so-called Canadian generic drugs ordered from a website claiming to sell drugs from Canada. Where was the website…
My understanding is that we crafted this language pursuant to the language the Senator from New Jersey used in the past and put a threshold we thought was--I think it was a $20 million threshold we put in place which we thought was a…
With respect to the Biden amendment, I was handed a copy of it a couple minutes ago. But having read it, it is a sense of the Senate. I don't see any reason not to support the Biden amendment. I have no problem with the language. It…
as I said during debate, this amendment simply says that we support the President's effort to negotiate a diplomatic resolution to Iran's garnering of nuclear weapons. I support the amendment. I wish the President and those efforts well. I…
this goes under the old rubric of no good deed goes unpunished. We have attempted in this amendment to meet the Senator from New Jersey halfway. The Senator's amendment has consistently been voted on. I have opposed it and so has most of…
I will address the comments made by my colleagues. I appreciate their thoughtful comments. First, this is not just a sanctions amendment. This is a sanctions amendment which imposes additional sanctions, but it also has a large…
I understand I have 4 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Graham). The Senator has 4 minutes, and the managers have 3 minutes left.
I would say that the developments have been--I would not call them dramatic. I would say they are modest in this respect: they are modest in the sense that the United States, for the first time, has decided to join with other countries in…
I would be happy to do so after we have had discussions about how we can dispose of this amendment, absolutely.
what I would certainly say to the chairman is, this is the Defense authorization bill. We will probably be here the remainder of this week and maybe going into next week finishing this bill. Usually, the Defense authorization bill takes…
this is an amendment that I spoke about yesterday and which I wanted to bring to the floor. I think it is a very important one. It is an amendment that is embodied in the bill I introduced last year dealing with Iran. It now has 61…
the Catholic Charities case in Boston, just 2 years after the introduction of same-sex marriage in America, highlights the growing concerns and indicates that the impact of this development on religious freedom has ceased to be a…
the final point I want to make--and I will try to come back to the floor when I have more time--is regarding the impact of this movement in the country by the courts on religious freedom. There was an article written, which was on the…
If marriage is not about one man and one woman, for the purpose of a relationship of which to have children and continue the society, then what? If it's about two women or two men, why not two women and three men? Why not whatever…
I congratulate my cosponsor, Senator Mikulski, for the excellent work we did as a team on this amendment. It took a long time to work this through the process, but we are very pleased today this amendment will be accepted. Mr. President…
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