That is not our process. We now have a bill and we are simply asking for a redline proposal.

It is a positive effort to go through the trouble, as we have all discovered when we are drafting legislation, to try to put something in writing.

Well, my time has expired, but I continue to believe that it would be both advisable and helpful to the process if you would take your wishes for this legislation and actually make them public and write them down in a way that everybody…

I appreciate the work that you both have done to try to come together on a TSCA reform bill.

I would urge you to do what you can to try to put your desires and wishes into a redline markup format.

Many of our communities continue to be plagued by gun violence.

We can have different ideas of the extent to which various gun laws should or should not be extended, but there really should be a bipartisan agreement that we should effectively and sensibly enforce the gun laws that we have.

Fraud varies dramatically by region as well, does it not?

It strikes me that there is a lot of room to have, let's say, Texas and Louisiana, which are highest cost and lowest quality move more toward Hawaii and New Hampshire which are at the other end.

We need to look at payment reform. We need to make sure that payment is tied to the value, not the volume of services.

I am here this evening to express my unwavering support for the men and women who have answered the call of duty in our military services, our Guard and Reserve, and for their family members whose love and steady support for them have…

it was fairly recently that this summer I came to the Senate floor to commend the Environmental Protection Agency for finalizing what we called the cross-State air pollution rule, which limits the out-of-State pollution that one State can…

Under the leadership of the Rhode Island Quality Institute and Senator Whitehouse, Rhode Island has used Federal ARRA money to make significant investments in Electronic Health Records adoption.

I have said over and over again that I think if President Kennedy had said we were going to bend the curve of space exploration, we never would have gotten to the moon.

Much as you pointed out, Senator Whitehouse, on that graph you showed at the first of the meeting.

I very much hope that the Administration will take a look at the delivery system reform elements in the Affordable Care Act.

I think Medicare, frankly, needs to learn how to do more of that.

I was here last week in this Chamber to discuss a variety of areas in which the American people are not getting a straight deal compared to special interests and folks who have a lot of power for themselves and their industries in…

I thank the chair and yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from…

I would urge you to leave that in place even though there has been this misunderstanding.

I think it calls up a higher level of performance and public spiritedness.

I think it is time for Congress to move forward in a bipartisan fashion with meaningful cybersecurity legislation.

we are going through one of the most difficult and painful periods in American history, and millions of Americans are wondering what is happening to our country. Behind the curtain of spin, propaganda, and political attacks, here is what I…

I ask that I be allowed to speak for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

The companies doing business here are not real companies; they are phony-baloney shell corporations that are designed to hide assets and to play games with the tax system. This income never even makes it into the 18.2 percent of the…