Consequences will likely be long-lived and are already widespread across Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

I'm a strong advocate for health information exchange.

Thank you to Chairman Collins and Co-Chairman Warren for the hearing today.

Congress presently has the heavy responsibility to conduct a thorough and rigorous review of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran. After numerous briefings from officials involved in the negotiations, consultation with…

I rise today for the 110th time to ask my colleagues to wake up to climate change. Long after today's debate has died down, it will still be looming and threatening. We stand now at the precipice of an environmental catastrophe. The…

I thank the Senator from Ohio for the way we have worked together. There was a slight toll to be paid on the majority side for getting the National Estuary Program passed, but it was one we could live with, and I think these are both good…

I further ask unanimous consent that the Whitehouse amendment, which is at the desk, be agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening…

I ask unanimous consent that the Environment Public Works Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 1523, the National Estuary Program, and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

before the Senator from New Hampshire leaves the floor, I wish to thank her for her work on the comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. She has been a very good partner in that effort. I know her home State, like Rhode Island, is…

I want to start my remarks with this photograph I have in the Chamber, which is a photograph of--I guess the miniplanet is what they call it now--Pluto. Why do I start remarks on climate change and carbon pollution with a picture of Pluto…

may I ask for a modification that I be able to speak for 1 minute on the cyber issue before we go into that 30 minutes? With that modification, I have no objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request? Without…

I have absolutely no desire to stop the hearing. I would like to have this be a full, thorough airing of the issues raised by this legislation.

climate change is real and not a hoax; two, human activity contributes significantly to climate change; and three, the Federal Government has a responsibility to act.

I agree with our Ranking Member that the scientific debate on the core principles of climate change is essentially over at this point.

Senator Whitehouse. The other group I think is worth listening to on this is the United States Navy.

One scientist does not a consensus make.

Senator Whitehouse. Sea level rise is arguably the most critical component of climate change affecting Virginia today.

You can argue up and down about climate, but you cannot argue about acidification.

If you asked the national labs, none of them have any doubt that climate change is real and it is happening.

Thank you. Mr. President, in my 1 minute, I just wish to respond to what my friend, the Senator from Arizona, said. We are very keen to get a good, strong cyber security bill passed. My concern about the amendment process is that…

I would ask that we not consider the health concerns that folks on my side of the aisle have about this measure which would delay the implementation of the plan and therefore create worse health conditions as a smokescreen.

The oceans are warming, and that really affects our fishermen.

may I suggest to my friend the Senator from Ohio that if he is going to keep coming back every day, it might be productive if during the course of the day he were to get his side to clear the paired piece of legislation, which, as I have…

I respect the Senator from Ohio greatly. I know this lake is important to him. We are a State that is wrapped around the estuary, Narragansett Bay, and that, too, is important to us. If my friend is sure, as he just said, that this bill…

we have been through this before, so I think the Senator from Ohio knows what I am going to say. The bill he proposes to go forward on these terms has been paired by our side with the National Estuary Program, which, like his bill, is…