I do not think there is any mandate there.

This budget includes funding for the Secretary's Every Kid in a Park initiative...

I wouldn't say that it is not a panacea. Your problems are not solved once you incent them, but I do think that everybody gets to the table and I think all the issues get on the table and then I think the management of the problem is based…

I applaud you for taking this action here.

I come to the floor this afternoon with my colleague from Maine, Senator Collins, to talk about an important national security measure that was passed in today's Customs bill that the conference report included and was voted out of the…

So I look forward to your commitment to working with other States on that.

I think it is very telling when you look at this model, because clearly we are talking about the lower-income population that was always hard to serve.

I supported Trade Promotion Authority because I believe in a global economy.

I hope that we are not going to have a delay by our colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle on moving forward on that legislation.

I want to put the administration on notice that this is something that we have grave concerns about in the budget.

yesterday, the Senate passed an amendment from Senators Collins and Klobuchar to promote biomass energy. I would like to take a couple minutes to express my support for biomass energy. Using biomass to create energy can be significantly…

we just cleared several amendments in a bipartisan fashion, working back and forth across the aisle, and I so appreciate our colleagues working so diligently on these tonight. If we want to keep making progress, obviously we have to keep…

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Franken's energy policy fellow, Michael Glotter, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I did want to mention on amendment No. 3140 that I want to thank everybody who worked on that particular amendment tonight. I know tomorrow we are going to have a colloquy continuing the dialogue among all our colleagues who care about…

speaking in opposition to this amendment, it is basically like Keystone ``light.'' The proponents want to have no environmental review of natural gas gathering pipelines, and that is why we should oppose it. With two exceptions, the…

we are about to vote shortly on the Lee amendment. I rise to speak in opposition to that amendment and to remind my colleagues that this is a vote that we took around the same time last year. The Antiquities Act is one of our Nation's most…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 3140, as Modified

I want to thank my colleague from Alaska for her focus on the hydropower bills we may be considering here, and I am thankful for the focus from all my colleagues on hydropower and ways we can continue to improve the efficiency of our…

I am hopeful that before we go to the caucus lunches, we will be able to move forward on a few more amendments and the scheduling of votes. Hopefully we will be able to do that in a few minutes. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The…

this amendment would direct the Department of the Interior to create a new education program to educate landowners about conservation programs. It also requires that if the Interior Department contacts landowners about selling property or…

I come to the floor as we are moving forward, as many of my colleagues know, on this energy package. I thank my colleagues who have already come to the floor today to talk about it, and I especially thank Senator Murkowski for helping us…

if I could just say, I so appreciate our colleagues working in such a bipartisan fashion to work through these eight amendments and set votes for these amendments tomorrow. We are making good progress on this legislation. I hope our…

reserving the right to object. I will not object. I just want to thank my colleague from Alaska for her hard work in working on both sides of the aisle today on these amendments: the Barrasso amendment about energy reported out of the…

Open MEPs represent a bipartisan solution to addressing this critical retirement coverage issue.

I, too, rise this morning to talk about the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015. Yes, sometimes we can be cynical about this place and what we can get done; then, all of a sudden, we have a great opportunity to move something forward…