I wanted to ask, Ms. Simmons and maybe others, who might want to comment on the President's budget that is cutting greater than one half of the land acquisition funds, as it relates to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

Investing in our water infrastructure and our public lands is all about jobs.

Unfortunately, that is not what we are seeing in the President's proposed budget.

There are some very useful applications that people want in firefighting for drones.

I hope you will be loud about this, the credit agency strategy, because to me we will lose U.S. manufacturing without it.

I want to have more people in trade enforcement than are sitting on this dais, and right now we do not have a lot.

Thank you for being here. Congratulations on your nomination.

I definitely think we should focus more on what it can do for us in providing that flexibility to the grid.

You cannot go stand in front of a Boeing plane in South Carolina and then not have a functioning Export-Import Bank.

I ask the Senator from Oregon this through the Presiding Officer. The innovation that was already in the Affordable Care Act really did address the Medicaid population, in which so much of that cost is for long-term care and nursing home…

I rise to discuss the nomination of Seema Verma for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS. We have before us a nominee that would run an agency responsible for the healthcare of more than 100 million…

if I could, I will ask the Senator from Oregon one more question, and maybe my other colleagues will join in. When you do not realize the savings and you cost-shift to the States, some of the key populations that you hurt are pregnant…

I ask this of my colleague, the Senator from Oregon, because Washington, Oregon, and so many other States spend so much time innovating. The proposal we are seeing coming out of the House of Representatives really isn't innovation. I like…

I think you will find many people unified here on the Committee on what we should do on fire.

I yield back the remaining time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The joint resolution was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution having been read the third time…

We have to live up to that responsibility. I hope you will be able to convince those at OMB and the White House that is what trust responsibility actually means.

I ask unanimous consent that privileges of the floor be granted to the following individuals with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Frances Brie Van Cleve, a Democratic fellow, through December 31, 2017; Stephanie…

we had a chance earlier today to talk about this Congressional Review Act resolution before us that I urge my colleagues to turn down. This resolution basically would negate a very important aspect of a rule that was put in place to help…

I come to the floor to speak in opposition to this resolution. Many of my colleagues know that we have had discussions in the Senate on several Congressional Review Act resolutions. In principle, Congressional Review Act resolutions…

We want many resources and information.

I wanted to get your thoughts on the cross-ownership issue of TV stations, radio stations, owning newspapers in the same markets.

I'm looking at your record, and this is why I'm concerned, because in March 2013, you voiced support for pursuing a resolution of disapproval against the FCC's media ownership rule and urged further consolidation.

I enter that into the Record because it is so important for our colleagues not to get stymied over the next several months, as we discuss proposals for economic development and for infrastructure across the United States, and not take…

I come to the floor this afternoon to talk about the affordable housing crisis in the United States of America and to talk about the reintroduction of legislation from last Congress that is going to be reintroduced by me, Senator Hatch…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Affordable Housing Tax Credit