I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

I really need you to promise me that you will send the Justice person at OMB to sit down with me and with folks from the Department of Justice and the FBI to have a joint discussion about what the right level of support is for our…

Your predecessor was, I think, also immensely talented and capable, and was filibustered not once but twice.

I am back again to speak about carbon and climate and to remind my colleagues that it is long past time for us to wake up and to address the causes and consequences of global climate change. Carbon pollution is changing our world, and it…

OMB has in some places become the place where regulations just go to die.

I want to assure Senator Grassley that I can give him a trillion-dollar list that gets you there without hurting the middle class.

we need to distinguish in this Committee between what is economics and what is ideology.

I intend to support your candidacy. I think you are immensely talented and qualified.

I think that OMB is well suited to be a place that sounds the alarm where it looks like there might be instances of regulatory capture in the Federal Government.

There is nothing in the First Amendment that protects false statements and the prosecution of false statements when provided under penalty of perjury.

I believe it is perfectly legitimate to say whether a category of offense is being prosecuted or not anywhere in the Department.

As far as I can know, there is zero activity.

We need to ensure that we are robustly and vigorously enforcing Title 2, the campaign finance laws.

There is nothing in the First Amendment that protects anybody's right to violate disclosure laws through a shell corporation.

Nor a false statement in answer to the no on Question 15 and then subsequent immense political activity.

I think we have agreement amongst everyone that it is never the government's position or proper role to determine based on the amount of influence that a political group or interest or individual has that they have too much.

There is nothing in the First Amendment that would protect threatening or corrupt speech, even if it is anonymous.

Let me close by reading one thing. We have just welcomed a new Pope. The Conference of Catholic Bishops had this to say about the Ryan budget last year: Congress faces a difficult task to balance needs and resources and allocate burdens…

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 establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring…

except perhaps in Congress, and in the boardrooms of ExxonMobil, it is no longer credible to deny what carbon pollution is doing to our atmosphere and to our oceans. We aid and abet that harm by subsidizing carbon, distorting the market…

may I call up amendment No. 646. I believe it is the next one in order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The assistant bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Whitehouse] proposes an…

I thank Senator Coons. The Senate budget resolution that we have worked so hard on would, first, replace the harmful budget sequester, the effects of which are only beginning to be felt in our communities--with balanced deficit reduction…

and colleagues, we have a new Pope, Pope Francis, who said last week that our relation with God's creation is not very good right now. God's creation runs by laws--the laws of nature, the laws of physics, the laws of chemistry--and God…

I have similar stories to those that have been described on the Senate floor today. Indeed, a former Member of this body, who is now the Governor of our State, Governor Chafee, wrote to me about a bookstore owner in Middletown, RI. The…

I thank Senator Levin for his leadership on this issue. I am proud to be part of his Levin-Whitehouse group in putting this together. If we boil down the discussions that we are having back and forth about the budget, they come to a very…