this week, the National Medical Association sponsored American Diabetes Alert Day, with the purpose of bringing the public's attention to this distressingly prevalent disease. Approximately 20.8 million people in the United States have…

pursuant to the order of March 28, I ask that the Senate now begin consideration of S. 2454. I further ask unanimous consent that the time until 8 p.m. be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. I further ask unanimous…

earlier this year, I made a commitment, with the Democratic leader, to make lobbying and ethics reform a top priority this year and not just another political talking point. By passing lobbying reform today, the Senate, in a way that…

to clarify, we are now on what will be passionately discussed over the next several days, a very important piece of legislation that addresses the range of border security issues surrounding enforcement, interior enforcement, temporary…

I wish everyone a good morning as we start a very busy day in the Senate. Yesterday, I think we defined a good glidepath to finishing the lobbying reform bill, after which we will return to the immigration issues. Today, following our…

what we have done is cleared a way, with one amendment and calling up other amendments, with the glidepath that we will address two amendments shortly after our break for our policy lunches today. We, I think, can be on a glidepath thus of…

I understand there was no objection. Mr. McCAIN. I reserve the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, if we vote cloture, there will be several important amendments that will fall…

we are beyond 12:30 p.m. Thus, I ask unanimous consent to delay the recess until we complete, in a few minutes, two items of business we will be addressing. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

we are going to address two issues, and those are the issue surrounding the lobbying bill, which is on the floor now, and we will march through that issue--the Democratic leader and I will explain to our colleagues what has just been…

we have made progress today on a very important bill, a bill that we brought to the floor now several weeks ago. It is an important bill that reflects upon this institution in terms of respect, in terms of integrity, and a bill on which we…

very briefly to review, after our break today for lunch, our policy lunches, we will be on lobbying reform. We have two amendments which will be debated. We set up to 2 hours. I would think that time could be condensed. Further discussions…

while the managers of the lobbying reform bill sort through some of the amendments and because we have some Members who want to speak on other subjects today, I now ask unanimous consent that there be a period of morning business until 3…

today, we will resume consideration of the lobbying reform measure. As I mentioned before the break, it is my expectation the Senate will consider the lobbying reform bill and the border control legislation during the next 2 weeks. This…

this evening we have continued to work on an agreement for lobbying reform, as well as the border control bill which is scheduled for tomorrow. Under the agreement just reached, the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the border…

this week, if there are no obstructionist tactics, the Senate will begin debate on protecting our country and fixing a broken immigration system. Since last fall, when I announced the Senate would take up this issue, the Judiciary…

I would like to open today with respects paid to Erma Byrd, the wife of our dear friend and colleague, Senator Robert Byrd. As the Chaplain mentioned in his prayer, Mrs. Byrd passed away recently--in fact, on Saturday night. Erma Ora James…

March 2006 marks the 60th anniversary of what is regarded as one of the most influential speeches of the 20th century. March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave his famous ``Iron Curtain'' speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, MO…

I now move to proceed to the bill. I send a cloture motion to the desk. CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The assistant…

after 4 full days of floor consideration and 36 rollcall votes, today the Senate passed the budget resolution. I congratulate, once again, Chairman Gregg and Senator Conrad on moving this legislation to passage. When we return from the…

I also wish to agree with the Democratic leader and express a request. We are going to have a long day here. We have a lot of votes lined up, and we have a lot of votes to follow that as well. So let's follow the managers' lead, and we are…

we have several items in wrapup in a little bit and a lot of activity is going on. Hopefully in 15 or 20 minutes we will be able to close the Senate. I come to the Senate to make a couple of statements. I begin with the very brief comment…

I did mention No. 580, David Kustoff, judicial nomination, as I mentioned, for U.S. Attorney for the Western Division of Tennessee, a colleague and a friend. I wish to congratulate him. ____________________

tonight, as we wrapped up our votes on the budget, I do want to take a minute to acknowledge someone who everybody in this body knows very well, but someone who has worked hard for many years behind the scenes--shirt sleeves rolled up…

we are returning to the consideration of the budget resolution. Last night, the two managers reached an agreement for a series of amendments that will be debated this morning. Following that debate, we will schedule votes on the amendments…

briefly, I wish to speak to another issue, an issue that relates to an anniversary that will occur on March 16. On March 16, 18 years ago, Saddam Hussein launched one of the most brutal and indiscriminate attacks against his own people. On…