I call up amendment No. 1140, which is the text of the substitute amendment to S. 615, which was reported out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk…

I am thrilled to be here on the floor with my partner, Senator Ben Cardin, who is the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee. We had an outstanding week last week in our Foreign Relations Committee in passing out this bill that…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Last year, Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) unveiled a bipartisan plan to raise the gas tax and index it to inflation.

We must ensure that our policies in the region strengthen existing friendships and build new partnerships that will be crucial and critical to U.S. national security for generations to come.

It is crucially important that we conclude the landmark Transpacific Partnership, TPP, and increase our security presence and our security partnership in the region to reassure our allies that the United States is here to stay.

I believe that we need to do better.

America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership role around the world and to continue responsibly investing in our foreign assistance and diplomacy programs.

I would just like to ask the question, would it not make more sense for us just to go ahead and do comprehensive housing finance reform and create certainty and solve the problem once and for all?

I think--really, as I hear this, really, it is pretty fascinating.

What I see happening here is people, generally speaking, on my side of the aisle are trying to develop legislation to change the rules of Dodd-Frank to create better access to mortgages.

I would like the Record to reflect that had the vote on the Schatz motion to instruct conferees been conducted by a rollcall vote, I would have voted nay. Bennet Motion to Instruct The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate…

the recent Corker-Coons proposal, which completely unties U.S. food aid from U.S. agriculture and cargo preference requirements, is estimated to increase the reach of title II by as many as 12 million more people.

Food safety standards of recipient countries must be met. We require testing for human pathogens and toxins.

I do not believe there would be as much lobbying taking place.

By providing this kind of assistance, we can help mitigate additional, further insecurity.

even good programs can be made better.

I just have greater faith in the American people.

the Food for Peace Reform Act of 2015, introduced by Senators Corker and Coons proposes a bold transformation of U.S. food aid

for the Committee on Foreign Relations I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the RECORDS on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that…

Thank you, Mr. President. I certainly appreciate the statement of my good friend, and we have talked a good deal about this. I believe we ought to pay for everything we do around here. There are all kinds of ways for paying for things…

I think this administration's inability--inability--to competently move ahead and put the Senate and the House in a position to put those reforms in place... I could not be more disappointed.

I believe that America should honor its commitments, and I think when we do not do that, we undermine ourselves.

we have the maximum guarantee we could possibly have right now because we are guaranteeing every single thing that they do.

I am not sure I want to punt again, I am sorry, especially not to FSOC, which I do not even really believe is functioning.