I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 471

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To create a point of order against legislation that would cut…

in response to the colloquy that just transpired, I would simply say that for all of the earnest and I am sure sincere spirit behind it, there is no willingness to even close one corporate tax loophole to support our Nation's defense…

I thank the Senator from Vermont. I wish to add my support to our ranking member's remarks. At present, somebody making $110 million a year--and there are people who make $110 million a year in this country--will make the same contribution…

Well, it is inspiring to hear that, but I am struck by the same fact that my colleague, Senator Warren, was struck by.

for my colleagues, this is an amendment which relates to protecting Social Security. Social Security is a program that has been an enormous success, that is at the heart of the American middle class, and that represents a solemn promise…

I look forward to working with you to enable that bill to move forward and get passed into law.

Thank you, Senator Lee. I am glad to be a part of this conversation. I share the concern that we all have for a Federal prison system that is 30 percent over capacity and costs $6 billion a year already. We have to add, if we are going to…

As a Federal official involved in health and safety regulation, is it your view that our sovereign States under our Federal system of government also have an important role in health and safety regulation to protect their own citizens?

to change the subject from sentencing reform to climate change, I come to the floor today for the 93rd consecutive week that the Senate has been in session to urge that my colleagues wake up to the urgent threat of what results from our…

I think we have a really significant opportunity to pass a significant piece of legislation.

But if you are a chemical company and you have a chemical that you see, uh-oh, there are some problems coming out here, we are starting to see some evidence that it is carcinogenic or poisonous in some way, if you can get it onto the…

In your experience with the rulemaking process, do the industry participants in the administrative process of rulemaking to some degree control the pace of that rulemaking through the actions that they can take in that rulemaking process?

What I see over and over again is bills that come to the floor or bills that come to the committee that should be bipartisan, that could be non-controversial that have a stowaway loaded into them that causes partisan problems that are…

This has always been a strongly bipartisan bill. There has been a lot of support for it.

It's time for a reboot of the Meaningful Use Program. It's been run for quite a while now.

There's a role for government in protecting against some of the abuses that are possible here.

That data should be ultimately the property of the patient, not of anybody else.

This is a bipartisan issue. It's about doing it right versus doing it wrong, doing it stupid versus doing it smart, and we ought to be able to work together on it.

It's really important that we solve the question of ownership of this data.

This bill has a new section that wasn't in, I don't think I have ever seen it before in the earlier versions of the Sportsmen's Act, which is this Section 6, giving people the right to run around water resources development projects with…

there are a lot of people--scientists, doctors and health professionals, our military and security leaders, the insurance and reinsurance industry, most of our major utilities, even faith leaders--who agree that climate change is a serious…

This is not big government forcing anybody's hand. This is not a mandate.

I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of my remarks Senator Isakson be recognized. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

Irrespective of the amount of damage that CO2 might do? There is no number from CO2 harm that could cause you to change your point of view on that?