Mr. President, I also want to add my support for the FAA reauthorization bill which the Senator from North Dakota talked about. It is important that we get this done. We have been operating without an authorization since 2007. We had a…

Madam President, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from Washington.

Madam President, reserving the right to object, will the Senator from Washington modify her request to substitute a Thune amendment regarding extenders, the text of which is at the desk? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the Senator from…

I would say, through the Chair, to my colleague, I think it is important that this Senate act in a way that provides some certainty and predictability for people in this country who depend upon public policy coming out of here that has…

I would say to the Senator, through the Chair, one of the things I think is hurting business and economic development in this country is a lack of certainty.

Mr. President, the legislation before us is the small business bill, which includes a number of provisions. I have stated before in comments on the floor that there are a number of concerns I have about the $30 billion lending fund that is…

Mr. President, when the health care reform bill passed, the Speaker of the House famously said: We have to pass this bill so we can figure out what is in it. Well, what more and more Americans are finding when they look at what is in it…

I heard my colleague say--and I would be interested in having him confirm--didn't Ms. Kagan teach constitutional law and would it not have been appropriate at that time for her to have looked at the Founding Fathers' intent on the second…

Mr. President, I close by saying as well, I think in all cases, you have to judge people not by what they say but by what they do. Clearly, the record would suggest, as it did with Justice Sotomayor, a certain hostility toward the second…

I say to my colleague from Nevada, it comes down to their horrible record on gun rights. It made it impossible for these two organizations to conclude that they would be impartial constitutional judges on this issue even though they tried…

Mr. President, the NRA wrote in that case: . . . Judge Sotomayor's judicial record and testimony during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings clearly demonstrate a hostile view of the Second Amendment and the fundamental right of…

Mr. President, I continue by saying that after reviewing Ms. Kagan's record of testimony at the confirmation hearing, Gun Owners of America concluded: . . . the available evidence portrays her as a forceful advocate of restrictive gun laws…