I am glad we are doing that. I want to thank the majority leader for moving to proceed to the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act as the next legislative measure for the Senate to consider. He made the motion Tuesday…

today, I am introducing legislation that will protect American consumers by improving the labeling on prescription drugs to promote consumer safety. This important bill will ensure that all drug manufacturers can update the warning labels…

We consider privacy to be one of the most important values we have.

I have made GMNF land acquisition a priority during my entire time in the U.S. Senate

I think it is important that we have a fully functioning board, and I welcome the President's nominees to this critical board.

This is a project that I have supported for 10 years and am eager to see it built in the near future.

Well, you know, we talk about WikiLeaks. There is a case where we had some real--the leaking of parts of it was just embarrassing, but other parts really went at our National security, and in some cases I think a case could be made that…

Government works only if you trust it, and if people feel they cannot be trusted with information, then we do have problems.

I would like to see some public exposure of whoever the num-nums were--that is a professional Vermont term--who allowed all that stuff to be put on a computer.

we have got to protect ourselves, but we have got to balance it with what makes us great as a Nation, our privacy and our civil liberties.

I hope we can move quickly.

I want our country to be protected, but I want our privacy to be protected, and I do not think those two concepts are contradictory.

I worry because sometimes with good intentions you have people who do not seem to use much sense.

We all want the same thing, to protect our privacy.

But we also have to have meaningful checks and balances. We are going to safeguard our fundamental values as we try to secure the Nation.

I applaud the people in our country who do try to keep us safe, and we know that we will continue to have new procedures.

Safeguarding our liberties is not a Democratic or a Republican idea. It is an American idea.

It is hard to understand why it took the President nearly three and a half years of a four-year term to send up the nominees.

speaking of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as we begin to work now after the Easter/Passover recess, I wish to thank all Senators who have come to the floor in recent weeks to express their bipartisan support of the Violence Against Women…

I ask unanimous consent when the time goes back to this side, that first the distinguished senior Senator from West Virginia be recognized and then his distinguished colleague from West Virginia, Senator Manchin, be recognized, both to…

I would like to take a moment to honor Senator Barbara Mikulski for recently becoming the longest serving woman in the history of the United States Congress. However, in doing so, I am reminded that this milestone does not define her…

continuing the time that has been allotted to me, I ask unanimous consent that the following statement appear as though in morning business, but I will utilize the time now allotted to me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

it is long past time to close the wasteful tax loopholes for Big Oil. Over the past 10 years, the five biggest private sector oil companies--BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and ConocoPhillips--have amassed combined profits of almost $1…

earlier today, the Supreme Court concluded three days of oral arguments about the affordable care act, the law Congress passed 2 years ago to provide millions of Americans with access to affordable health care while bringing the spiraling…

I suggest the absence of a quorum, with the time to be equally divided. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.