I note the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.

Special interests would be my answer. We have seen it before. We saw the science mocked that tobacco was injurious to human health. We saw the science mocked that the lead in paint was injurious to children. And now we have seen mockery of…

I am glad to have a chance to join with you today. I appreciate very much Senator Sanders convening us on this day when we have agreed, it appears, to extend the payroll tax; we have agreed, it appears, to extend unemployment insurance…

The costs that come with chronic pain are enormous, and they are not just health care costs measured in dollars. They are also human costs measured in quality of life.

Our work centered on simple things like making pain a fifth vital sign, recorded by the medical establishment.

we are in an age of tight budgets and tough choices, and I rise today to introduce legislation that would address some loopholes in the Tax Code that provide ways for Americans with superhigh incomes to pay lower tax rates than are paid by…

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Mr. Whitehouse pertaining to the introduction of S. 2059 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

I rise today to join my senior colleague, Senator Reed, in tribute to the memory of a great public servant and a great friend, Jay Joseph Garrahy, former Governor of Rhode Island, who passed away last week at the age of 81. At his funeral…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Rhode Island is recognized.

I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Gillibrand). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

representing a State that is coming up on our 350th anniversary, I am delighted to salute the great State of Michigan on its 175th anniversary. I rise to note the anniversary of an unfortunate event that is undermining the very core of our…

in the Senate we come at the war in Iraq from many different points of view, but in one respect I believe we are united and unanimous, and that is an appreciation for our troops who fought and bled and died in Iraq. So before we return to…

Today I rise to commemorate the 375th anniversary of the National Guard. As ceremonies are held across the country to celebrate this historic milestone, I wanted to pay tribute to our National Guard for the enormous contributions it has…

I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island asks that all time be yielded back. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The question is, Will the Senate…

I rise today to highlight important provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act conference report that will counter the serious and growing problem of counterfeit goods entering the military supply chain. Section 818 of the…

The bark beetle relates to climate change because what was keeping those trees free from the bark beetle was cold winters that killed off the bark beetle larvae. As temperatures have warmed, the larvae lived through the winters, and they…

The challenge of climate change being extremely real, one of the things that is so frustrating about this campaign of phony, manufactured doubt is that in real life we are seeing the predictions of climate science come true around us…

That is why we go on to the National Science Foundation, which found no direct evidence of research misconduct and therefore said, ``We are closing this investigation with no further action.'' Parliament looked into it as well, because the…

And it provoked considerable review afterward because of the alarmist claims that were made in this phony attack on the climate science. A number of pretty respectable organizations took a look at this. One was the university itself, and…

Yes, Climategate-gate. In fact, the real scandal here wasn't what the scientists did; the real scandal was the phony attack on the scientists.

And it is not enough that they have a stable of paid- for scientists to create doubt, to create phony science that raises the level of doubt; they also go out of their way to attack legitimate scientists. You would not think this would…

This is founded by the Marshall Institute. There are others of these out there. The other example is the Heartland Institute, another so-called think tank with backers from tobacco and the fossil fuel industries, founded also in 1984. It…

We've heard from the medical society that pediatricians are feeling a particular pinch, and one particular Rhode Island institution that we are very proud of is Women and Infants Hospital.

as Senator Franken has pointed out, despite the efforts to mislead and create doubt, the jury is not out on whether climate change is happening and being caused by manmade carbon pollution; the verdict is, in fact, in, and the verdict is…

We are proud of what is going on in Rhode Island as well. We plan to meet 16 percent of our energy needs through renewable energy sources by 2020, and that is on top of a goal to cut energy use by 10 percent. So we will cut energy use by…