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…

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…

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

reserving the right to object, and I will not object, but I just want to point out to our colleagues that the chair has worked with us today to get a number of these pending amendments. I know she will probably express this, but it is our…

American vehicles are still very dependent on oil. In fact, transportation is responsible for 70 percent of U.S. petroleum usage.

The U.S. auto industry has come back during the last seven years and it sold a record number of vehicles last year.

Vehicles affect almost all Americans. Today's hearing is a way to talk about new vehicle technologies.

I think what is happening is consumers find out more information about pollution and particularly in China they are raising great concern.

I want to emphasize a few things. Utility scale wind capacity has grown by 677 percent from less than nine gigawatts to nearly 70 gigawatts in the last ten years.

I thank the Senator from Florida for coming to the floor and speaking so articulately about the need for help for Puerto Rico. His State is the most impacted State in the United States when it comes to our policy as it relates to Puerto…

I thank my colleague, and I yield the floor to any of my other colleagues who have come to the floor to join us. The Senator from New Jersey probably has the second most, if not the most, number of Puerto Ricans in his State. The PRESIDING…

responding to my colleague from Alaska-- and I will make a longer statement in a second--I do want to thank her for her leadership, not just as chairwoman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, but also as the chairwoman of the…

I thank my colleague Senator Murkowski for her leadership on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and I thank the Senator for her discussion on fighting wildfires in the United States of America. I think she gave a great…

I thank the Senator from Indiana for his great remarks. I thank him for making them today. ____________________

I come to the floor tonight to discuss Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States since 1898. Millions of residents have been citizens since 1917, nearly 100 years. This community of 3.5 million people is facing economic, fiscal, and…

I thank the senior Senator from Vermont for his leadership on this issue. Last year, I travelled to sub-Saharan Africa with Senator Stabenow. In Africa, we saw firsthand that empowering women and girls as leaders in agriculture is…

I join my colleague Senator Murray in commemorating Mayor Haggerton's 30 years of public service. As mayor, Mr. Haggerton led the effort to develop and adopt Tukwila's first strategic plan, providing a clear vision for economic development…

I rise tonight to thank my colleagues who worked so hard on this transportation package that we have just voted on. I thank Chairman Inhofe and Senator Boxer for their hard work, as well as Chairman Thune and Senator Nelson from the…

While the implementation of this law clearly has tremendous impact on Alaskans, I think it is important to remember that the lands covered by ANILCA are Federal lands and those are lands of national interest.

Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the date the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act was signed into law.

Violent crime and the ability to prevent it remains one of the biggest issues facing Indian Country today, particularly for Native American women.

I feel like we are a vast representation on the membership that is here right now on what the needs are for Indian Country and coordination.

So how do you build the continuity in the system?

Not only are these statistics startling, they are unacceptable.