my colleagues and I have come to the floor to talk about an issue that is at the heart of the discussion of our national debt and deficit; that is, health care spending. These days around Washington, there is a regular refrain echoing…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Mark Gaston Pearce, of New York, to be a…

But I also hope that the executive branch takes a lesson from this experience about the value of classification or what I would consider overclassification.

I rise today to speak regarding the nomination of James B. Comey, Jr., to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Comey has a long record of service to the Department of Justice. Colleagues doubtless are familiar with…

I look forward to that. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). The Senator from Connecticut. ____________________

As the Senator from Hawaii said, it is not just Hawaii, it is not just Rhode Island actually, it is all of our States that will be affected. Dr. Leinin, who testified at our EPW hearing, is from Florida Atlantic University. She highlighted…

tide gauges in Newport, RI, show an increase in average sea level of nearly 10 inches since 1930. That is a big deal for Rhode Islanders when we think about how devastating our great hurricane of 1938 was and what worse would now befall us…

Rhode Island is preparing for climate change. We are doing it in commonsense ways. Along our coasts, we are identifying areas that are vulnerable to sea level rise. The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography is a world…

I am here once again, actually now for the 40th time, to urge my colleagues to wake up to the threat of climate change. I am very pleased to be joined today by our colleague Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who is a champion of renewable…

George Washington led armies that left bloody footprints in the snows of Valley Forge with no certainty that their enterprise would succeed...

For every dollar of Federal funds invested in brownfields redevelopment it has leveraged an average of $18 dollars in total investment.

And to Senators Udall and Crapo, thank you for your leadership to strengthen and to simplify this terrific program.

We were kind of fed a bill of goods about who was there along the road and about how dangerous they were.

I think it is really important.

We heard over and over again from our national security officials about the value of Guantanamo as a recruiting tool for our enemies.

I hope we can continue the bipartisan spirit.

Short of filing an original action in the U.S. Supreme Court and suing them directly under the Constitution, you are all we have got.

I am concerned about the problem of stormwater runoff into Narragansett Bay.

It is a little bit like being a downwind State under the Clean Air Act.

We want a justice system that works, and we want a viable, robust public defender on the other side.

the budget is a really extreme budget.

I am informed by the leader that we hope to confirm both the Perez and McCarthy nominations on Thursday. ____________________

Let me ask if any of the other witnesses would care to respond to those charts and that data?

in 1638--375 years ago--a small, brave group of free thinkers banded together to establish an independent democratic community founded upon civil liberty and religious toleration. The settlers were followers of Anne Hutchinson, a highly…

it is also true that warmer oceans and warmer air carry more moisture and therefore can lead to more severe precipitation.