the Senator from Maine is about to speak I believe on the Older Americans Act. While she is here on the floor, I wish to take a moment to express my personal appreciation to her and to Chairman Alexander for an issue that arose during the…

as folks around here know by now, I come to the floor once a week to say as clearly as I can that it is time to wake up to the mounting hazard of climate change. Today is the 106th consecutive time. Why do I do it? Why do I care so much…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 20 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

This is the most inappropriate Aging Committee hearing I have ever seen, and it is terrific to see this blue sea of young faces.

She has led a letter to the Appropriations Committee to support diabetes research, and we are all happy to be Senator Collins' wingmen on this issue.

There is an enormous amount of support in this room for the continuous glucose monitoring, and the bill to make that a part of Medicare is Senator Collins.

I wish to join Chairman Murkowski in expressing my satisfaction and pleasure with this bill we are on and join her in commending the leadership of Ranking Member Patty Murray and Chairman Lamar Alexander. As a result of their work, we have…

I am not sure what the intentions are of the chairman of the energy committee. As chairman, I would be delighted to yield to her if she is going to take some time on the floor, and I would need about 10 minutes for my remarks. The…

I am happy to yield. I thought we went back and forth from side to side ordinarily, but I am very happy to yield. I have a chairman who is a very busy person. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.

I ask unanimous consent that Andrew Bronstein, an education fellow in my office, and Ethan Arenson, a Judiciary Committee detailee from the Department of Justice, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The…

I am here to recognize a historic milestone: the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. This occasion has some personal significance for me and my family. My father served as…

there has been some conversation on the floor. We are working out the order of proceeding. I ask unanimous consent that Senator Wicker and Senator Shaheen be recognized first for a colloquy, followed by remarks by Senator Brown, followed…

I expect I will take less than the 20 minutes, just to reassure you, but I want to reserve that much time. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 20 minutes in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

this is the 105th time I have come to the Senate floor to urge my colleagues to wake up to the reality of climate change. I know the Presiding Officer is a veteran of several of these speeches. For far too long, far too many of us in this…

I have a bill to exactly that effect, that appears to comport with at least the general principles that most of the Republican study groups that have looked at this issue require, i.e., that the money go back to the American people and not…

There is clearly a price.

I am on the floor today for the 104th time--one of these days, I am going to get it right--to urge that we wake up to the dangers of climate change. The scientific community has been sounding the alarm for decades. Our most respected…

I appreciate very much my measure related to composite technologies has been included by agreement.

today is my 103rd time coming to the floor to ask my colleagues to wake up to the urgent problem of climate change. Pretty much everyone is telling us climate change is a problem. First of all, there are the scientists, virtually every…

I'm interested in how that arrangement is different than the relationship between the Wall Street banks and the credit rating agencies.

I think that while nobody wants a central command somewhere at CMS directing every iota of the development of this process and probably inhibiting it, we are responsible here in Congress for setting the terms under which industry will…

That's a system that's gotten a little out of hand.

My experience is that when you've got that much data, people are a lot less accountable about when they meet the standard because they can find some other standard where they did OK.

I hope that we're able to go forward in a bipartisan and productive way, as has been the hallmark so far of Senator Alexander and Chairman Murray and this committee.