I am so delighted to hear the great confidence that my Republican colleagues now have in the EPA.

Bottom line is that what we are voting on now is a much better bill than what we started with.

I strongly support this amendment.

As I understand it, dozens of countries around the world either restrict or ban asbestos.

when I was first elected to Congress in the 1990s, I worked very hard and successfully to establish what is called a cancer registry.

You represent a political party which overwhelmingly rejects what the vast majority of scientists are telling us about the most important environmental crisis facing humanity, and that is climate change.

What governments do closest to home is something that I believe makes a lot of sense.

I rise in strong opposition to the fast- track bill the Finance Committee approved last night, and that I think will be on the floor next week or the following week, on the Trans- Pacific Partnership. I think the most important aspect of…

what the New York Times article talks about is that today there are nearly 200 electronics factories in Malaysia where high-tech products from Apple, Dell, Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments are manufactured and brought back into the…

I object to the unanimous consent request to waive rule XXVI to allow the Finance Committee to pass a fast-track bill that will undermine the American worker. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, let me…

let me say to my friend, the majority leader, I appreciate his position. But as he knows, not only is there massive opposition to this TPP agreement, but there is a lot of concern that the American people have not been involved in the…

I objected to the unanimous consent request to waive rule XXVI to allow the Finance Committee to pass a fast-track bill because I think it is time we slowed down fast-track. This trade agreement, I think everybody acknowledges, is of…

Reserving the right to object. Sorry. I withdraw the objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I have to call for a rollcall vote on this one. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.

I send to the desk my motion to instruct conferees. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to setting aside the pending motion? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative…

I send to the desk a motion to instruct conferees. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for Mrs. Murray…

later today, maybe as early as 11 o'clock or so, we are going to begin a discussion of the budget. As we know, the budget is a set of national priorities. A budget has to do with our vision of where America is and where America should be…

Social Security is arguably the most important Federal program we have. It is life and death to millions of senior citizens, people who have to figure out how they pay for food, how they heat their homes, how they pay for their medicine…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

in the State of Vermont and I expect all over this country, especially in rural areas, what we have seen is a significant slowdown in mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service. What this provision is about is the establishment of a…

I ask for the yeas and nays. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.

this is a motion to instruct budget conferees to keep in the bill the Senate-passed deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation to allow Americans to earn paid sick time. This was an amendment which passed during a vote-arama of the…

this motion is being offered by Senator Brown of Ohio. Our big banks are too big. The largest banks are now 38 percent larger than they were before the crisis. In terms of outstanding loans, one out of seven Americans is being pursued by a…

this motion is being offered on behalf of Senator Murray, and it would instruct budget conferees to build on the Bipartisan Budget Act and provide sequester relief in 2016 and 2017 by closing tax loopholes. As the ranking member of the…

I move to instruct conferees on S. Con. Res. 11, a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, to include in the conference report the provision in the concurrent resolution as passed by the Senate establishing a…