Patrick Leahy

That's all the authority I need.

Does the Senator from Michigan also believe that the definition of GMO food included in this bill prohibits the labeling of ingredients from plants genetically modified through new and yet to be developed gene editing techniques in…

I wish to join my colleague from Michigan, the ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senator Stabenow, in a colloquy regarding the scope of the products that could be labeled under the GMO labeling legislation. Does the…

I would answer my friend and colleague from Vermont--especially, as a member of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, I am well aware of this--that there was not one single hearing, not one single witness. Unlike Vermont…

In fact, the Vermont Legislature, is it not a fact, had at least 50 hearings with at least 130 witnesses?

Before the Senator yields the floor, he talked about what Vermont did. Isn't it a fact that the Senate didn't hold one single hearing or have one single witness come before they set this bill; is that correct?

May I make a further---- Mr. McCONNELL. Regular order, Mr. President.

I consider myself a responsible gun owner. I think common sense tells us that if we have assault weapons that are designed for the battlefield, they really have no place on our streets, in our schools, in our churches, or in our…

I again ask through the Chair if the Senator will yield further without losing the floor.

Without losing his right to the floor, I thank my distinguished neighbor in New England and ask through the Chair if he is aware that the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed for years to close the glaring loopholes in the background check…

I thank my distinguished colleague from Georgia. Amendment No. 4549

If the Senator from Georgia would yield for me to make a unanimous consent request.

The Congressionally established military justice system is a fair system that often provides victims and criminal defendants with more rights than do civilian justice systems.

I am proud that the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Vermont National Guard has been selected by the Army to associate with the 10th Mountain Division in the new pilot program.

We want to know what the numbers should be.

This lake has the most-- outside of the five Great Lakes, has the most freshwater in the country.

I'm afraid we may be getting into some kind of a Hobson's choice here.

I do not want any State to feel like they have to bear this burden themselves.

We know new standards are coming, but we don't know when and what they're going to be

Of course, it's a fraction, it's a fraction of 1 percent, and the return, pay for it now or pay many, many, many, many times more later on.

But you also have to deal with the people who are there.

So many times repression within a country has led to greater extremism, which creates even more problems.

They talk about development and diplomacy, how we need that to combat terrorism.

There's no question we need money, but we can't even seem to pass emergency funding in this country to deal with the Zika virus.

But you give us your ideas of what to do, and we'll try to do it.