The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). Mr. DURBIN: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders)…

I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott). The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I appreciate the Senator from Florida yielding for a question. I wish to ask the question, Is the Senator aware that $580 million of unspent Ebola funds has been reprogrammed by the Obama administration as a down payment on dealing with…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2016, at 9:30 a.m., in room SD-406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I am delighted to be here on the floor with the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the ranking member, our colleague from Vermont, whom I have worked with on so many issues, to ask unanimous consent to take up a bill that I…

I wish to respond briefly to my friend from Washington. The prevention fund that was created by the Affordable Care Act that is part of the President's signature health care bill has more than adequate money in it to pay for the research…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2016, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2016, at 10 a.m., in room SR-253 of the Russell Senate Office Building to conduct a…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2016, at 3 p.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to…

I know of no further debate on the matter. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 2840) was passed, as follows: S. 2840 Be it…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2016, at 2 p.m., in room SR-428A of the Russell Senate Office Building, to conduct a…