The bottom line is we need credible, enforceable minimum safety standards for our rail transit systems.

This is not acceptable to the Obama administration.

Again, Mr. President, as you see me on this floor--and I know you share this commitment to those Federal employees who work in the great State of Minnesota--too often, when we have our political dialogs here, we get closed and sometimes…

This is the strategy Senator Warner has been advancing in a stand-alone legislative proposal.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs' Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 9:30 a.m., to conduct a…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Seapower of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Science and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. in room 253 of the Russell…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDEING OFFICER…

I rise, as I try to do on a regular basis, to honor another one of our great Federal employees. I know in the great Empire State of New York there are literally thousands of folks who oftentimes work anonymously to make sure, day in and…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011. The committee will meet in room 418 of the Russell Senate Office Building beginning at 10 a.m. The…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 9:45 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 18, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., to hold a European Affairs subcommittee hearing entitled, ``Administration Priorities for…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 18, 2011, at 2:20 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on May 18, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

As Secretary LaHood has mentioned several times, there is no point in using Federal dollars to buy brand spanking new buses for transit systems if they cannot afford to pay the drivers to put those buses into service.

yesterday this Chamber came together to unanimously confirm Ms. Arenda Wright Allen to serve as a district judge in Virginia. I thank my colleagues from both sides of the aisle for their vote. I am confident that we will give the same…

I do hope that, and it sounds like the SEC and the CFTC are working well together, but at some point, it was at least this member's hope that so that we would not have this patchwork and siloed approach and duplicative sets of regulations…

I continue to think the jury is out on whether at least this member's hope and aspiration of what the FSOC would be will be accomplished.

I think that inures to the benefit of the system.

Hopefully those in the audience who were visiting my office when they were saying please do not, Congress, legislate specifics, that you will recall that this is some of what you asked for.

This cannot be done with a strict kind of simple metric of dollars a sense.

I rise to speak in support of the nomination of Arenda Wright Allen to serve as the next U.S. district court judge for the Eastern District of Virginia. I am very pleased to see that our leadership came together to move this nomination…

Any effort to try to retract that would be, I think, potentially devastating to international implementation.

We wish to commend Senator Jim Webb and Senator Mark Warner for their outstanding leadership to help preserve the unprotected hallowed ground on the battlefields in the Petersburg area.