Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I yield up to 15 minutes to the Senator from Alaska. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alaska.”

there is a lot of buzzing going on around the Capitol today. Here we are on New Year's Eve, and so many of us had hoped we would have an agreement that would be really a big agreement, a long-term agreement that we would have liked to have…

Thank you. Are there other speakers on our side? Let me ask the Chair to notify me when there is 10 minutes left in case Senator Collins comes or someone else. So I would like to have up to 10 minutes and be notified. Mr. President, I rise…

The enlargement process has and will continue to serve as a particularly effective vehicle for promoting democratic values.

Our Ambassador resided in a bombed-out building that did not have running water.