The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 4, as follows…

I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (S. 782) was…

I am glad to see my friend from Connecticut, Senator Blumenthal, on the floor because last week the Senate Judiciary Committee reported the PROTECT Our Children Act, which helps protect children across the country from exploitation over…

let me join my friend, the senior Senator from Utah and President pro tempore of the Senate, in his remarks about the U.S. Capitol Police. All of us who work on Capitol Hill, all of our visitors who come here--our constituents from around…

I thank the senior Senator from Vermont for his kind words. We do agree, occasionally, about a few things. We are, in some ways I think, the odd couple when it comes to things like open government and freedom of information. We agree on…

before he leaves the floor, I want to say to my friend, the Democratic leader, among his other attributes, he now claims omniscience. He knows everything--even about things that haven't even been written yet, and I, for one, appreciate as…

Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election.

Compounding the error, the Director ignored another longstanding principle, that we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation.

It is a stunning thing and it violates fundamental powers.

The FBI Director is never empowered to supplant Federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department.

That is not the role of the FBI director, is it? That is a job for the prosecutors at the Department of Justice.

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 1338 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…