I appreciate very much you and your fellow Fed Board Governors for maintaining your independence during a time of recent criticism.

I have 8 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

The HONEST Act passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support on March 29th, 2017.

I have been concerned that the broad discretion and lack of transparency at the EPA has led the Agency to seek out the science that supports a predetermined policy outcome.

I thank the EPA for taking this important step, and I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today about the proposed rule.

Regulations created by the EPA help to protect the American people from tainted water, dirty air, and chemical exposure.

I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time.

I further ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 643, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 508, H.R. 2259. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill…

I ask unanimous consent that all postcloture time on Executive Calendar No. 938 be considered expired at 2:15 p.m., Tuesday, September 25; that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 644, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 645, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:55 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, September 25, 2018, at 10…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., Tuesday, September 25; further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the take with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 2259) was passed.

I rise today to honor a fallen hero, Assistant Fire Chief Dave Fischer of Sturgis, SD. Dave, a 22-year member of the Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department, also served in the South Dakota National Guard's 82nd Civil Support Team based out of…

I would ask that we perhaps take up this matter in a more expeditious manner and confirm Mr.

The American Congress is not the Russian Duma, that what it intends, if it pursues it and stays with it, is something that he should be afraid of.

I think his intent was to not simply say this is what we are going to do but, rather, to say there will be consequences.

That was the intent of the Secure Elections Act, which a number of us are sponsors or cosponsors of.

The President with an Executive order is clearly, I believe, trying a lay a line in the sand, and his message clearly is pointed at Russia.