I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Net Neutrality Order

I ask unanimous consent we be able to enter into a colloquy now for 25 minutes? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be discharged from further consideration of S. 720 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration; that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid…

as we debate here in the Senate how to get our economy going again to deal with what is a stagnant economic set of circumstances, something that we have been grappling with now for a few years, I think it is instructive to look at what is…

I appreciate the objection of the Senator from West Virginia and I appreciate his comments about the importance of long-term care. I agree, it is something we need to address in this country. There are other ideas out there, and I think…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--S. 720

This legislation, along with identical companion legislation introduced in the Senate by Senator John Thune (S. 1831), would eliminate the ban on 'general solicitation' in nonpublic offerings.

We all saw this coming and we tried our best to prevent it, but now we know and we have these statements that came out as part of the report that was done by the House and Senate, an investigative report called the CLASS Act, the untold…

I would simply say--we have the ranking member of the Budget Committee here too--that it strikes me that there were probably lots of other budget gimmicks in the health care law that are going to come to the surface in the same way this…

Too often, the practice around here is focused on the short term, the near term, the gain, to be able to have some sort of political victory at the expense of what is in the best interests of this country and our children and…

We have to quit making promises we cannot keep. What we are seeing today in Europe and the meltdown that is occurring in the economies over there is a result of too many promises that were made, too much government debt, governments that…

I would say to our colleague from Wyoming, who is a physician and has a lot of experience on these issues, who comes down every week with a second opinion talking about all the various issues regarding the health care bill--the more recent…

I rise in support of S. 1726, the Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011. I know we are currently debating several appropriations bills which we hope to be concluded sometime later today. But in that process, my expectation is that we are…

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

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Withholding Tax Relief Act

I rise to speak to an issue that I think has been on the minds of a lot of people here and hopefully people across this country too; that is, this failed CLASS Act Program, which last week we finally got some--I would characterize it as…

But as you have said, these athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, and the contact, the hits that I watch just every Sunday watching the NFL, there are some real contact being made there.

It just seems like we have got, with young people out there, more and more injury occurring at an earlier and earlier age.

We need to ensure that our policies reflect the latest science.

I think at that time, they treated everything with whiskey.

I think when most people think of concussions, as was mentioned, we think about football.

I think that is a very good idea, but it is more complicated than that because at some point, kids have to learn how to hit and how to be hit and how to avoid the big forces, and that can only come with practice.

I am going to have to leave. I have to go to a cybersecurity hearing. That is a different kind of threat.

late last week the American taxpayer got some very good news, and that was that the administration announced they were not going to move forward with implementing the CLASS Act. It was a stunning end for something many of us have believed…

I would say, Madam Chair and Senator Inhofe, other members of the Committee, going forward, flood control needs to be the top priority for the Corps, particularly in wet cycles.