I am very grateful to the distinguished senior Senator from New Jersey for joining me again this week to bring attention to the challenges that climate change and rising seas pose for our coastal communities. Our States--New Jersey and…

at the Senator's desire, he may add any of those whom he wishes, and we will consider that going forward. Unless and until he does that, we are in a position that unless we are helping all of them, we will help none of them. I yield the…

I simply note that the Senator seems to be making precisely the argument that he is denying that he has made. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.

I ask unanimous consent that the Finance Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 379, a bill to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for disability insurance benefits under such title for individuals with amyotrophic…

one of the things that marks service as a U.S. Senator is the chance to meet really remarkable individuals, and among the remarkable individuals I have had the chance to meet in my time in the Senate, there are few, if any, who are more…

I ask unanimous consent that I be recognized for a few moments; that at the conclusion of my remarks, my colleague from Arkansas, Senator Cotton, be recognized; and that at the conclusion of his remarks, I be recognized again for a…

let me go on the record to say how much I disagree with my colleague's view of this; the notion that we can't help anyone until we can help everyone is simply not the way the world works. The notion that we can't help anyone until we have…

I am honored to join the senior Senator from Oregon in support of this important resolution. As I think everybody on this floor has observed, there is a rot in our American democracy, and there is a shadow over the Halls of Congress. The…

I yield the floor to the distinguished Senator from Michigan. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

this week, Nations of the world are gathering in Katowice, Poland, to review--and we hope amplify--their commitments to reduce carbon emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement and to discuss how they will report and verify reductions in…

while the distinguished senior Senator from Texas, deputy leader, is still on the floor, let me thank him for his kind remarks and express a word of appreciation for his patience through the long process of getting to a conclusion that we…

I am both pleased and honored that my distinguished friend Senator Feinstein is joining me today to discuss how climate change is affecting our country, from the East to the West, from one of the biggest States to the smallest one. Of…

Senator Feinstein, the fires have affected us-- nothing like what you describe. Our State has not burned. Our State is not like California today, still smoldering from such a massive fire. We don't have the devastation of the photograph…

I thank the Senator. Of course, California's massive economy is a vitally important part of the innovation that is going to help solve this problem if we can get the political will and the economic alignments to do this. Rhode Island, of…

I thank the Senator. Senator Feinstein may remember, I came here in 2007. I was sworn in in January of 2007. In 2007 and in 2008 and in 2009, just what we would expect to be happening on an issue like this was actually happening in the…

I am here today to express my extremely grave concerns about the person we have just begun to move to a vote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He would be Commissioner McNamee if we were to confirm him. This is in an…

That is a true statement. The scientists of the world have more or less reached consensus that that 2 degrees Centigrade increase is one we do not want to go beyond because it could set in force further consequences that would accelerate…

That is a very true statement, and I would add that there are very few transcendent moments that take place here in the temple of mammon, where big special interests throw their weight around, but one of them that I have been privileged to…

I thank the distinguished Senator from Florida. He has been a particularly dear friend in our years here together. We sat next to each other on the Intelligence Committee, and I was able to see in that classified session his extraordinary…

this evening, the leader or someone standing in for the leader is going to come and close out the floor with a number of unanimous consents. One of them will be a unanimous consent to push consideration of the National Flood Insurance…

a persistent argument of my climate talks is how corrupt climate denial is. The premise of that argument is that the fossil fuel industry denial apparatus is wrong about climate change and knows it is wrong. That is my case. The fossil…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 20 minutes as in morning business; further, that at the conclusion of my remarks, the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Markey, be recognized; that we have permission to engage in a colloquy; and…

She prioritizes open communication around difficult issues and is well respected by our whole congressional delegation in Rhode Island.

On another matter, the Lautenberg Act amendments that revived TSCA are fairly recent.

I have noticed, as the political staff have been working on this issue, in this Administration that there has been what I consider to be unnecessary and unjustified narrowing of the exposure pathways that EPA will consider in enforcing the…