reserving the right to object, we have a clear and straightforward path ahead of us. We have at long last a bicameral, bipartisan agreement on all of our full-year bills. It is time to get them passed and close out fiscal year 2024. After…

we have now at long last passed our first six funding bills for fiscal year 2024. While we are still now working around the clock on the final six bills, I am hopeful we will pass them in a timely, bipartisan way very soon. But I do want…

This budget offers a roadmap for progress on tackling the housing crisis that is crunching Americans pocketbooks.

a budget is a statement of values and President Biden's budget tells working people and families very clearly and simply, we have your back and we're going to be building a stronger future together.

This budget offers a roadmap for progress on tackling the housing crisis that is crunching Americans pocketbooks.

I rise today in hopes of passing a bill in a few minutes that would support our veterans and our servicemembers by making sure that when they want to grow their family, they can get the care and services they need, including IVF. The…

the source of our nation's strength is our people and investing in working families does pay off in a major way.

the source of our nation's strength is our people and investing in working families does pay off in a major way.

as in legislative session, notwithstanding the provisions of rule XX, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration of S. 2801, the Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2023…

a budget is a statement of values and President Biden's budget tells working people and families very clearly and simply, we have your back and we're going to be building a stronger future together.

I am deeply disappointed but not surprised. Let the record show I have been trying to pass this legislation into law for well over a decade. It wasn't yesterday. It wasn't last year-- for well over a decade. And for the entire time…

President Biden understands the source of our nation's strength is our people and investing in working families does pay off in a major way.

This budget offers a roadmap for progress on tackling the housing crisis that is crunching Americans pocketbooks.

As I always say, a budget is a statement of values and President Biden's budget tells working people and families very clearly and simply, we have your back and we're going to be building a stronger future together.

I want to thank everybody who has worked really hard on this. For all Members of the Senate, I yield back all of our time. Amendment Withdrawn The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to concur with a further amendment…

we are nearly there, and I am hopeful that we can all come together and get an agreement to pass this bipartisan, bicameral, full-year funding bill as soon as possible. We all know the deadline. We are here in the Senate, ready to move…

I have spoken out previously about CDS requests that Members have secured for their communities, but this one really takes the cake. It would, at the eleventh hour, wipe out all of the CDS requests in this bill, all of the hard work, all…

I ask that the Senator modify his request so that the cloture motion with respect to the House message be withdrawn and the only motions and amendments in order to the House message to accompany H.R. 4366 be the following: Lee amendment…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.

this amendment is exactly the sort of poison pill rider we all worked to keep out of this important bipartisan package. The census must be conducted in a nonpartisan, nonpolitical way to get the most accurate data possible, data that is…

I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived and that there be 6 minutes equally divided between myself and Senator Collins. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Washington is…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from Utah. Motion to Table

reserving the right to object, last Congress, Senate and House Appropriations Committee leaders reinstated the practice of congressionally directed spending--or CDS--with bipartisan support. CDS is one very important way for lawmakers to…

I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate a message from the House of Representatives on H.R. 4366. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives on H.R. 4366, which the…

I want to thank the vice chair, who spent innumerable hours with me for a very long time, through many, many different discussions and meetings and hearings, and for her incredible work to get here tonight to this vote. Thank you so much…