Sheldon Whitehouse

I thank my colleague. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tester). The Senator from Rhode Island.

I think it is Congress' job to make sure that you have the resources and the structure that will be most effective to accomplish your mission.

I do not want to in any way have anything that I have said be taken as a criticism of you or the FBI management.

The era of microfilm is over.

I very much applaud the direction that you have been going in.

I think we need to figure out what the proper design should be for going after it and then worry about how we pay for it.

I think this is a call to action from the U.S. Congress to make sure that Americans have the water quality infrastructure that they deserve, and we are going to have to do this sooner or later. Why not do it now, while we so urgently need…

Voting to confirm an individual to the Federal bench is one of the most important decisions that a Senator can make.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:51 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, November 17, 2011…

We expect to receive the conference report, which contains the continuing resolution, from the House tomorrow. Senators will be notified when votes are scheduled. ____________________

I will yield the floor with appreciation to my colleagues, Senator Landrieu, Senator Tester, and Senator Blumenthal, for coming together to urge our colleagues to support the Pell grant. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from…

I wish to ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Montana, Mr. Tester, the Senator from Louisiana, Ms. Landrieu, and the Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Blumenthal, and I have unanimous consent to engage during majority morning business…

That is not our process. We now have a bill and we are simply asking for a redline proposal.

I appreciate the work that you both have done to try to come together on a TSCA reform bill.

Well, my time has expired, but I continue to believe that it would be both advisable and helpful to the process if you would take your wishes for this legislation and actually make them public and write them down in a way that everybody…

It is a positive effort to go through the trouble, as we have all discovered when we are drafting legislation, to try to put something in writing.

This is nobody's first rodeo here, and we have all certainly been involved in legislative matters in which the private sector has a very specific point of view.

I would urge you to do what you can to try to put your desires and wishes into a redline markup format.

We can have different ideas of the extent to which various gun laws should or should not be extended, but there really should be a bipartisan agreement that we should effectively and sensibly enforce the gun laws that we have.

Many of our communities continue to be plagued by gun violence.

I very much hope that the Administration will take a look at the delivery system reform elements in the Affordable Care Act.

I have said over and over again that I think if President Kennedy had said we were going to bend the curve of space exploration, we never would have gotten to the moon.

Under the leadership of the Rhode Island Quality Institute and Senator Whitehouse, Rhode Island has used Federal ARRA money to make significant investments in Electronic Health Records adoption.

I think Medicare, frankly, needs to learn how to do more of that.

We need to look at payment reform. We need to make sure that payment is tied to the value, not the volume of services.