I want our American industries to be the leaders in that.

It is the No. 1 thing, our embassy told us, that frightens the Chinese government about a green revolution type of thing that could upend their rule.

A number of big American corporations have actually imposed an internal price on carbon.

Climate change may not cause hurricanes but warmer ocean water can make them more powerful.

We are losing our State at the coastal verge. The houses at Roy Carpenter's beach are falling into the ocean.

Let me just briefly welcome our witnesses to this chamber, one in which reality is so often suspended, one in which science is so often twisted and mocked and one in which the power of special interests to manipulate American democracy is…

I presume we are in a quorum call. I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Global Warming

I am back today for the 54th time to urge my colleagues to wake up to what carbon pollution is doing to the Earth's climate and oceans. We see the facts all around us, but can't seem to penetrate the politics of Congress. We, in this body…

I would like to hear your assurance that you will be more energetic about pursuing that kind of a case and working through the difficulties rather than allowing the Department to be defeated by those difficulties.

I would rather have the State Department have to have the problem of cleaning up a little bit than to have the Department of Justice have the problem of doing nothing about this massive hemorrhage of American value and this massive…

the attacks through our cyber system on private corporations for the purpose of stealing their intellectual property to distribute to competitor corporations in the home country of the attacker is a very, very significant drain on our…

Thank you and Senator Blumenthal for the very strong effort that was put into trying to come up with a cyber bill.

We have been a day late and a dollar short consistently with our response to the Syrian crisis.

The conflict in Syria remains one of the most crucial foreign policy challenges that we face.

may I ask unanimous consent that a military fellow with Senator Murray's office, Major James O'Brien, be granted floor privileges for today's session of the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

If I could ask the Senator another question in response to what she just said, not only is it a win-win, being lower cost and better quality care, but I believe the Senator said that there is actually a third win here. There is the win of…

Isn't it the heart of what the Senator said just a moment ago that there is an area that actually touches on a lot of health care--it is a big area--where you can do two things at once? You can save significant money for taxpayers and…

I am here today to talk about the health care problem in the country, because I think the fixation of this body on the health care Web site has taken our eye off the fact we have a very significant and fundamental health care problem. This…

I thank the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I ask if the chairperson of the Budget Committee will engage in a brief dialogue, colloquy.

I thank Senator Blumenthal for that question, and I thank him for his work in this area. For some time he, Senator Graham, Senator Blunt, and I were part of a group that tried to pull together a bipartisan compromise, a meaningful piece of…

I rise today with my colleagues, Senator Blunt, Senator Blumenthal, and soon to be joining us Senator Graham, to speak about our Cybersecurity Public Awareness Act of 2013. It is now broadly accepted in this body that the cyber threat…

I wish to engage for perhaps the next 20 or so minutes with Senator Cantwell, who is arriving shortly. I will begin with some remarks and ask unanimous consent for us to engage in a colloquy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

in responding to what Senator Cantwell just said about the Congressional Budget Office, it indeed has been frustrating and bedeviling to run up against their inability to project these savings in a way that would allow us to--what we call…

let me conclude for our side with the observation that in this season of peace and reconciliation, perhaps this is an issue where a little peace and reconciliation, a little zone of peace and reconciliation can emerge through all of our…

if the Senator would yield for a question, I might inquire of him whether it is his view that if you actually take a look at what is being done by the administration under the executive order, it bears a considerable resemblance to the…