section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, BBEDCA, establishes statutory limits on discretionary spending and allows for various adjustments to those limits, while sections 302 and 3141(a) of the…

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for September 2017. The report compares current-law levels of spending and revenues with the amounts the Senate agreed to in the budget resolution for fiscal year 2017, S. Con…

I am going to call it eating the whale one bite at a time to make it more bipartisan.

I wish to express concern with section 709 of H.R. 2430, concerning over-the-counter, OTC, hearing aids. I have a daughter who has worn hearing aids since she was a toddler. I have firsthand experience with the kind of expertise needed by…

I yield back all time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. All time is yielded back. Cloture Motion Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state. The senior assistant…

for the information of my colleagues, the Congressional Budget Office released its estimate of H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, in July 2017. Information related to this House-passed bill can be found at the Congressional…

the Senate Budget Committee wishes to honor and recognize Marion Curry on her retirement from the Congressional Budget Office. Marion has worked in the budget analysis division of the Congressional Budget Office in various capacities for…

the Senate Budget Committee wishes to honor and recognize Jeffrey Holland on his retirement after 26 years of distinguished service to the Congress with the Congressional Budget Office. Jeff is highly regarded by Republicans and Democrats…

I wish to speak on behalf of Peter John Camino, who is being inducted into the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame. Every year since 1992, Wyoming has recognized individuals who have made substantial contributions to agriculture in our State…

I will not. You got your hour; it is my hour. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will be in order. The Senator declines to yield. The Senator from Wyoming has the floor.

When I was chairman or when Senator Kennedy was chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, we switched from doing hearings to doing roundtables. That was an interesting experience too. Instead of having all of the…

Earlier I mentioned the CO-OPS. I would have preferred the small business health plans. I didn't think the CO-OPS would work. CO-OPS were included in ACA. These plans were meant to provide competition with existing health insurance…

section 3001 of S. Con. Res. 3, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017, allows the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates, and levels in the budget resolution for legislation…

Yes, and I have an hour, whether I use it or not. As I said, for the past few days I have been yielding time to the other side. I haven't gotten much satisfaction out of that. I have listened for the last hour, and I didn't get any…

I will not yield. I would appreciate the same courtesy from that side that I gave to you when you were doing your expositions about healthcare, which included the things that I have mentioned that aren't even in the bill. Our side has some…

I allowed the other side to have their hour. I expect to have this hour, even if some of it is in silence. I mentioned reducing the tax burden. We could also eliminate some regulations. We really need to take a look at some of those…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 51, as follows…

I want to continue on with why we are trying to change this. The Galen Institute--Grace-Marie Turner wrote about 70 changes to ObamaCare that occurred after it went into effect. And those changes include the ``employer mandate delay…

No. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator does not yield. The Senator from Wyoming has the floor.

I think the answer that I gave was perhaps your time might be better spent taking a look at the bill because the conversations I have heard here didn't necessarily speak to the bill.

Continuing: The [Health and Human Services] and administration officials knew that the CO-OPS were at risk even before they received their first ``loan'' in 2014. Senator Rob Portman, Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on…

I have heard so many times that the other side would love to be cooperative, but I have yet to see cooperation. I am not going to take questions; I am going to--I really would appreciate it if you would just take some time to look at the…

They speak to the process, and I think we have already covered that in 3 days. Mrs. McCASKILL addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming has the floor. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, will he yield for a question…

I heard somebody say that nobody was listening. Well, I was listening. I have read a little bit from this book before on the floor about healthcare. It is called ``Demystifying ObamaCare'' by David G. Brown, who is a doctor. He does a…

for 2\1/2\ days I have been listening to the same rhetoric. It sounds like deja vu. For 2\1/2\ days I have been listening to this. I have been giving extra time to the other side to speak. I have been hoping out of that I would get one…