Rhode Island motorists pay nearly $500 million every year in car repairs for whacking into potholes and dealing with the crummy road infrastructure.

While the next panel is gathering, can I just express my appreciation to Senator Klobuchar for including in her bill a provision that Senator Sessions and I have supported to make sure that it is clear that the U.S. Marshals can deploy in…

I am suggesting kind of two parts to the benefit. One is that it would create resources to help the victims, but it is also a sanction when hotel owners who are letting this happen lose their hotels and when Website owners who are allowing…

I might point out that not only are Delaware and Rhode Island both small and mighty, but they are small, mighty, and coastal, which is relative to the topic of my remarks this afternoon. I am now here for the 89th consecutive week that…

Reserving the right to object, may I have one sentence to observe that there appears as yet to be no Republican plan whatsoever to answer the energy chairman's question on climate change-- what do we do--and with that noted, I do not…

may I say how much I appreciate the open amendment process. ____________________

This whole exercise began with the recognition that there were kids who simply weren't being heard, particularly in State legislatures.

We've got to do a lot better.

The set of problems that I see and hear about a lot in Rhode Island is how inefficient the testing burden is.

Finally, Mr. President, at the University of Oklahoma Berrien Moore III is dean of the College of Atmosphere and Geographic Sciences. He is also Director of the National Weather Center. Dean Moore of the University of Oklahoma was a lead…

The National Climate Assessment estimates that by the end of the century the temperatures in the Southern Great Plains will increase up to 9 degrees. Mark Shafer is a researcher at the Oklahoma Climatological Survey who contributed to the…

Reserving the right to object--it is not in the form of a question--but, as I said, during the Keystone debate, the energy committee chair said we should get beyond the discussion as to whether climate change is real and talk about what do…

Reserving the right to object, during the Keystone debate, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee chair said we should get beyond the discussion as to whether climate change is real--

I am here now for the 88th time to urge this body to wake up to the looming threat of climate change. In the last few weeks, my Republican colleagues have talked about climate change here on the floor more than at any other time since I…

the underlying measure benefits specific investors, specific corporations, and pushes regulatory approval of a specific project. In that sense, it has all the earmarks of the biggest earmark ever. We have learned from other history with…

I am here now for the 87th consecutive week the Senate has been in session to urge action on climate change. We have had an interesting couple of weeks on the Keystone Pipeline, but from a climate change and carbon pollution point of view…

I think it was Rule 89 of those Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior that George Washington kept that said the following: 'Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.'

I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To require campaign finance disclosures for certain persons…

I am actually not an opponent of earmarks, I am a great fan of my senior Senator, Jack Reed.

One of the flaws in the stimulus program that we put together and passed in the depths of the recession was that our rush for shovel-ready projects meant the only ones we could get into the pipe were the ones that were already on the books…

I just wish to speak briefly to this amendment, which I hope might help answer the mystery as to why the first order of business of the new majority in the Senate is S. 1, a bill that allows a foreign corporation to run a pipeline across…

to ask them to contribute a little bit more of the above $10 million salary to Social Security does not seem like asking a lot.

I think that is fundamentally unjust.

we are proposing a mandatory toll charge of 14 percent on the roughly $2 trillion of earnings that are overseas and have not been taxed.

You have said before, Dr. Elmendorf, that health care is a very big part of our debt and deficit problem going out. Is that still true?