Her familiarity with the intricacies of this important statute will help her succeed in the role for which we consider her today.

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

I note that my distinguished colleague from Massachusetts has arrived. We have an order in place in which the Senator from Massachusetts is to be recognized at the conclusion of my remarks and that the distinguished Senator from New…

We have to understand how dramatically the climate is changing.

it is hard, particularly for those of us from coastal States, to overstate the importance of the Earth's oceans as a storehouse of our food, as a regulator of our climate, as a highway for our travel and trade, and as a source of wonder…

let me begin by thanking my senior Senator, Jack Reed, for calling us to the floor to reflect and memorialize a truly splendid Senator who represented the State of Rhode Island, our friend and a great Rhode Islander, Claiborne Pell. I…

the passage of the bipartisan America's Water Infrastructure Act, more commonly called the 2018 WRDA bill, is celebrated by a wide spectrum of supporters, including environmental organizations, national associations representing cities and…

it is a real pleasure to be joined here today on the Senate floor by Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. Senator Shaheen has been a tireless advocate for clean energy and is the Senate's bipartisan champion on energy efficiency…

I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of my remarks, the Senator from New Hampshire, Senator Shaheen, be recognized. She will be picking up at the end of my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent that Ryan Edwards and Kim Binsted, AAAS fellows in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

as a U.S. Senator and a member of the Judiciary Committee, giving careful consideration to Supreme Court nominations is among my most important responsibilities. These lifetime appointments can change not only the course of the Nation but…

I am grateful to be joined by my wonderful colleague from Oregon, Senator Merkley, for my 222nd ``Time to Wake Up'' climate speech. Although there are thousands of miles between us--on the west and east coasts--Oregon and Rhode Island…

I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of my remarks, Senator Merkley be recognized for associated remarks, followed by a brief colloquy between the two of us. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

One of the touching features of the Senator's presentation was the summary of the effects on God's creatures--the sea lion pups, the fish, the sea birds, just from this particular episode. You may not have a big heart for an oyster spat…

I believe it was Tom Friedman, the very well-known author, who first wrote comprehensively about the connection between the unprecedented drought in Syria driving farmers and herdsmen away from their former farms and herds--the farms dried…

I just want your assurance that you will not be a part of or party to any Fifth Column within Social Security.

I think it would be a terrible mistake to let that happen because of all the potential conflicts of interest and added costs and so forth.

I simply want to make--let me start by defining my terms. You know what a Fifth Column is?

With the support of Chairman Hatch, which I appreciate very much, we have a proposal to suspend the 5-month waiting period for people who are diagnosed with ALS.

I do not think there is anybody sitting in this room who is completely happy with the way the process is working, including myself.

what I want to talk about is a new form of political weapon that has emerged onto the political battlefield in America, and it is a political weapon for which the American system is not very well prepared yet. The new political weapon we…

I am here for my customary ``Time to Wake Up'' speech, but before I get into it, given the events of the day, I just want to express my satisfaction with the turn of events in the Judiciary Committee. As the Acting President pro tempore…

I thank the Presiding Officer. Bravo to all who participated in making this possible. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the…

I have the happy occasion to actually pass a law. It is one that I have been working on for some time. So I have taken the opportunity to come to the floor to actually move it through myself. Yet, before I do that, there are a considerable…

It is important to support the ability of retirement plans to honor commitments made to working Americans.