I yield back all time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Edward G. Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of…

Without a cost-reflective tariff, lenders are not going to lend and investors will not invest.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 31, as follows…

I know that we really have kind of cut our nose off to spite our face in years past because we have had carbon caps in Africa that have kept Africans from having power.

I find the answer that you gave relative to the classified setting and potential military efforts major baloney.

U.S. policy has completely failed to shift the balance of power, improve the humanitarian situation, or achieve the President's stated goal of removing Assad.

I thank the Chair. Mr. President, I rise to speak on the pending business before the Senate, which is the aid package and sanctions package and the IMF package relative to Ukraine. I wish to thank Senator Menendez for the way he conducted…

We have allowed Assad to solidify his position, embolden his external supporters, and undermine the moderate opposition.

I was afraid that might be the case. I wonder if I could ask unanimous consent to speak for 8 minutes or so. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I find that answer--a friend, someone I respect--to be one of the most major misleading baloneys I have heard since I have been in the United States Senate.

I cannot imagine you saying that in this setting.

This civil war threatens regional stability and has allowed terrorists to control more strategic territory in the heart of the Arab world than they did prior to 9/11.

the administration has no military options on the table.

We have no strategy in Syria. We have not had a strategy in Syria from day one.

what he did with the chemical weapons while crass, while something that violates every international norm that we have, the way we have responded to that or the way we responded to him doing that has validated his position.

I wish to ask about my time, but before the Senator from Texas leaves, I wish to thank him for his comments and his involvement in this issue. I appreciate his coming to the floor. I think this is an important issue for us to be debating…

The best thing he ever did was kill 1,200 citizens with chemical weapons because the United States and Russia and others have now propped him up.

I want to hear every cell, decimal point. I want to hear every description of what we may or may not being doing relative to the opposition.

I will be brief. I wish to say first to the leader, we certainly have had some discussions regarding operations on the Senate floor and the speed with which we deal with things and the amount of debate, but I thank him for trying to bring…

if I could add to the comments of Senator McCain. Last night we all met with the Prime Minister. They don't even need this economic aid today. They have to sign an IMF agreement first. It is weeks before they even need what the Senator…

the administration is now the only thing standing in the way of thousands of American jobs, with the potential for many more, and access to a large supply of North American energy.

the President's apparent climate standard for the approval of the pipeline... appears to ignore the findings of exhaustive concrete environmental and economic development analysis.

the link between the completion of the Keystone pipeline and ensuring our energy security, thus our national security, is clear and compelling.

It has generated this much opposition when it seems... to be such a no-brainer.

I think we can all learn from both of those views.