The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) would…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would…

today I recognize Commander Kathy Felger, a congressional affairs fellow for the U.S. Coast Guard on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, for all of the hard work she has done for me, my staff, and other…

we are being heard when it comes to addressing what is a logistics and operations issue for all the railroads involved

I have a unanimous consent request I would like to put forward as well. I ask unanimous consent that if cloture is invoked on the motion to proceed to S. 2199, that all postcloture time be yielded back and the Senate proceed to…

2 weeks ago the New York Times published an article on the congressional Democrats' plan for the rest of the year. It boiled down to one thing: Campaigning. That is right; 8 months out from the election, Democrats in Congress have given up…

the Senator from Utah has an amendment he is going to speak to in a moment. I just want to say one thing. I appreciate the observation made by the Senator from New Hampshire Ms. Ayotte with regard to this going through a regular order…

I think what we just heard was a number of our Members have amendments they are going to talk about and offer when we get on the bill--and I assume we will at some point--so we can debate and vote on them. We are talking about an issue…

The McConnell amendment has to deal with flexibility in the workplace and comp time, the Fischer amendment has to do with antidiscrimination in the workplace, and I believe the Lee amendment also deals with comp time flexibility in the…

I hope that both of you will work to sort of change the partisan atmospherics at the Commission.

We need to be honest about our expectations of the Coast Guard if we continue to underfund it year, after year, after year.

You're dealing like everybody is with some serious budget realities that require the Federal Government to do more with less.

The concerns that have been brought to light by the GAO in its recent study are very troubling.

Drug and migrant interdiction are interrelated missions that have a direct impact on our national security.

I think all Americans expect the IRS to administer our tax laws in an impartial manner.

I rise to speak to my amendment No. 2959 to the unemployment insurance legislation that is before us. The amendment is called the Good Jobs, Good Wages, and Good Hours Act. Twelve times Congress has voted to extend emergency unemployment…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). Without objection, it is so ordered.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). Further, if present and voting…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). Further, if present and voting, the…

I thank my colleague from Missouri. Senator Blunt and I have, as he said, worked very hard when it comes to the overreach of government agencies and the burdens of regulations, the cost of regulations and what that is doing to a lot of…

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his observations about health care and more particularly about jobs. We are talking about a 13th extension now of unemployment insurance benefits which, in my view, does treat a symptom, but it doesn't…

clarification regarding the recent announcement that NTIA intends to relinquish responsibility of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the global multistakeholder community.

I come to the floor today to talk about jobs. Once again, this week the Senate is taking up an extension of unemployment benefits, which will be the 13th such extension since 2008. Arguably, of course, we came out of an economic downturn…

yesterday the Democrats in the Senate held a news conference in which they rolled out their agenda, which has been described differently by different news organizations. The headline from the Washington Examiner said: ``Majority…

private companies like Target hold vastly larger amounts of sensitive information about us than the government could ever think of doing.