today has been a busy and productive day in the Senate--quite a historic day in many ways. We passed the Voting Rights Act, significant legislation on which we had very good debate and discussion over the course of the day. It is a bill…

41 years--that is how long it has been since the Voting Rights Act was first enacted in 1965, and we have come a long way in those 41 years. That much was made clear to me on a recent visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis…

again, very briefly, what that means is that we will be voting at approximately 4:30. We will then move to the John Walsh child predator bill, have debate on that, and have debate on the judges, and then we will have stacked rollcall votes…

briefly, I want to propound a unanimous consent request which has been agreed to by the leadership on the other side. And then people will know the scheduling for today and tonight. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the vote on…

25 years ago this month, Reve Walsh took her 6-year-old son Adam shopping with her. They were looking for lamps at a local department store--a short mile from their home--when Adam was abducted. Sixteen days later, Adam's body was…

that particular bill is a bill that I hope we can address in the near future, a bill that will make available, once we address and pass it, a billion barrels of oil and over five trillion cubic feet of natural gas that this country does…

I yield back all time on the judge nominations. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nominations, en bloc? The nominations were confirmed, en bloc. The PRESIDING…

last week, on the morning of July 12, Hezbollah launched a brazen and unprovoked attack on Israeli soldiers patrolling their side of the border with Lebanon in northern Israel. Hezbollah militants killed seven Israeli soldiers and…

in just a few moments we will be voting on three bills. The first bill we will be voting on is the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act. The second bill we will be voting on is the alternative means, the alternative ways of deriving stem cells…

last year I made a commitment to try to bring H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, to the floor. This week, I followed through on that promise. Over the last 2 days, we have discussed science, we have discussed ethics and how…

I urge adoption of the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution. The resolution (S. Res. 534) was agreed to.

plans tonight are that we will get consent on moving to the Water Resources Development Act. Senator Inhofe is available to start that bill. I congratulate and thank all of our colleagues for the very good debate that we have had over the…

I yield 3 minutes on my time to Senator Dodd, who has been unable to come to the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.

this morning at 10 a.m. we will resume debate on the stem cell issue with each 30 minutes alternating between the two sides. We have the designated times locked in with three votes occurring in a stacked sequence beginning at 3:45 today. I…

I understand I have 15 minutes under my control. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is correct.

today we have been debating the stem cell research bills. That debate will continue at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, again the time alternating between the two sides. Senators are reminded that we will have votes on these bills tomorrow…

we made real progress this week in passing a very important bill, the Homeland Security appropriations bill, under the leadership of Chairman Judd Gregg, who did a superb job on a very important bill which adds billions of dollars to…

last week, on the fourth of July, a day when Americans across the Nation were outside barbecuing, watching fireworks, and celebrating the 230th anniversary of our independence, North Korea launched seven long- and medium-range missiles…

I understand there was an inadvertent clerical error in Chairman Inhofe's statement in the Congressional Record last night. I ask unanimous consent that the correct statement be printed in the Congressional Record at this point and that…

I see none of my colleagues on the floor at this juncture who want to speak, so I suggest the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

let me comment on one other issue before yielding the floor. It has to do with medicine again. It has to do with an issue which is very close to my heart, which I first saw in 1981 before I ever thought about getting into politics or…

we will have a period for the transaction of morning business this morning. Senators are reminded that we will begin the stem cell debate on Monday. Last night, we reached an agreement to allocate debate time in blocks, alternating back…

I will soon ask for several unanimous consent requests and then probably go back into a quorum call for little bit, and I will have a final statement on stem cells that will be very brief. Mr. President, as I mentioned this morning, there…

we have one matter of business that we are working on now. That is Water Resources Development. There has been objection to the unanimous consent that I propounded earlier by the Democratic leader. We are working very hard to work out that…

all that to say that we will be on stem cells on Monday and Tuesday with the 3:45 time period beginning three consecutive votes. The times that we just locked in are to have some order to the debate back and forth so people will know…