I rise to deliver a difficult speech. My senior communications adviser, Ron Hindle, is retiring after more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate. If you do some quick math, you will realize that Ron has been part of the Senate longer than I…

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 314(a) of the…

while the Senate is on the topic of retirement savings, I would like to call attention to a policy that I have worked to advance for many years. I believe policies permitting the existence of pooled provider plans, which passed the Senate…

I greatly appreciate having this opportunity to share with my colleagues the presentation of an award that means a great deal to me for a number of reasons. It is the president's medal that will be presented by Steven Knapp, the president…

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for April 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.Res…

You know, take 80 percent and the other 20 percent we can come handle another day.

I rise to offer my support for the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Several weeks ago, shortly after President Trump announced this nomination, I came to the floor to say what an…

I appreciate having this opportunity to recognize the 102nd annual conference of the Wyoming State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. This year's conference is being held in Casper and once again promises to be an interesting…

Thank you Dr. Gottlieb for being willing to take this on and obviously to leave all those things behind that were very profitable.

I do not want some future Commissioner to be sitting at this table 10 years from now discussing that they have not fully implemented Cures.

We knew that the purpose of that was to be able to get an evaluation for people that haven't been evaluated so they could find their place in the workforce.

What we've got to do is get people moving up the ladder to where they're getting paid what they ought to be getting paid.

In Wyoming, we have something called Climb Wyoming, and it's for single moms who want to get into a non-typical job.

Women have more concentration than men do. They have more multi-tasking skills than men do.

I'm interested in the disparity of anybody's pay and know that there's a Federal law that says if you're doing the same job in the same company, you're supposed to be getting the same pay.

I've suggested that the small companies ought to be able to hire an expert for their particular type of business.

We were the last State to have one Job Corps center, and ours is in the middle of a reservation inhabited by two warring tribes, with high unemployment.

Thank you, Mr. Acosta, for being willing to go through this process and serve.

Congress should not provide Federal funding to a private pension plan.

the agreement that is often cited by my colleagues as the 'promise' didn't impose an obligation on the Federal Government.

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for March 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. Res…

The undersigned organizations, representing America's agriculture, nutrition, conservation, rural development, finance, forestry, energy, trade, local government, plant/animal health, agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine, labor…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second? The clerk will call the roll. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No…

when I woke up this morning I was remembering some of the Old West stories about catching the culprit and hanging him. Then we got a little more sophisticated out West, and we said: You know, we need to give that person a fair trial and…

I rise today as the Senate considers the nomination of Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina to be the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. That is OMB. We are long overdue in confirming Mr. Mulvaney to this key post…