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another way to honor our veterans is to honor the men and women currently serving in our military. Yesterday, we did begin the Defense authorization bill. I do urge my colleagues to come to the Senate floor now, this morning, with their…
I say to the Senator, indeed it is, Mr. Chairman. The Cub Scouts badges and uniform is one I wore and, indeed, my three boys wore, Harrison, Jonathan, and Bryan. It is that introduction to Scouts that most of us first experience. Indeed…
on leader time--the managers will be coming to the floor--one final thought. I am pleased to report that we are making progress on an issue which I mentioned in my previous remarks on information technology. We are working together in a…
this morning, we will have 60 minutes of debate prior to the cloture vote on the nomination of Thomas Dorr to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development. This is a nomination we have tried to clear for quite some time but were…
safe drinking water is one of the biggest health challenges facing the developing world. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 1.1 billion people around the world lack access to clean water sources and 2.6 billion lack…
today in the Senate we will undertake one of our most significant and historic constitutional responsibilities. The eyes of all Americans and of history will be focused upon us. The American people, through their votes, have entrusted us…
today we will begin the Senate's session with a 60-minute period for morning business. Following morning business, we will return to the pending business of the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. We made substantial progress over the…
today, we will be voting on final passage on the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. I want to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues for their tremendous work and, in particular, Senator McConnell for his stewardship of this…
tomorrow the Senate will complete action on the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. We have several pending amendments to dispose of tomorrow morning. Although that list is longer than I would like, it is hoped that most of those…
today, we will begin consideration of H.J. Res. 52, which approves the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. We have shortened the statutory time limit. There will now be a…
we have a lot to do in the next week and a half. DOD authorization, as the Democrat leader and as my colleagues know, is a high priority. We also are doing our very best to come to an agreement on how to bring stem cells to the floor of…
I have submitted this resolution with regard to Sudan, a country in Africa I have personally spent a lot of time in and participated with, both in the south and the north, in promoting peace there. There have been 2 million people who have…
we have been here before. Indeed, the Senate has voted twice, most recently on the Homeland Security appropriations bill we finished last week, and then a week before that on the Interior appropriations bill, to provide $1.5 billion for…
in response, I will check with Chairman Burns to see where specifically the money comes from. I am not exactly aware where the money comes from.
today, we return to the consideration of the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. We began that bill last Friday with opening statements. Senators McConnell and Leahy are ready for Members to offer their amendments during today's…
as we conclude our first week back from recess, having 2 more weeks in this block of time before our August recess, I want to take a moment to reflect on how far we have come and what accomplishments have been made during this 109th…
this morning we will begin the Foreign Operations appropriations bill, probably in 15, 20 minutes. Last night we were able to complete work on the Homeland Security appropriations measure with an overwhelming vote of 96 to 1. We had a few…
I will speak in leader time. For nearly 2 weeks, we have been working in a bipartisan manner for the goal of passing the Homeland Security bill, which spends almost $32 billion for homeland security, all of which is one of our most basic…
we will return to Homeland Security appropriations in just a few minutes. Last night, we entered into an agreement to provide for a series of five stacked votes beginning at 10 a.m. The first vote will be normal in length; however, the…
briefly, with the three votes we just completed relating to mass transit, we are on a good glidepath toward finishing tonight. I should say we were on a good glidepath for finishing tonight. The chairman and ranking member of the Homeland…
we are going to start the last vote in a few minutes. The managers faced a few roadblocks this afternoon, but we are going to complete this bill. This will be the last vote of the evening. Tomorrow we are going to begin foreign ops. The…
people around the world know the United States as a land of freedom and opportunity. We have remained that way in large part because we open our doors to immigrants. We must continue to do so. People come to America looking for a better…
let me take a moment and update everybody on the schedule. We are going to have one additional vote scheduled this evening. We will be starting that momentarily. We have 14 additional amendments pending at this time. We should be able to…
I have some brief remarks about confirmation of a new Supreme Court Justice. As we all have witnessed, the process is off to a great start. Consultation is well underway between the President of the United States and the Senate. It is…
today we will return to the pending business of the Homeland Security appropriations bill. We have six amendments that were called up yesterday and are currently pending. The two managers have been working on the sequencing of amendments…
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