I think you're seeing an opening for bipartisanship on an ACA initiative called section 1332.

Congress has a responsibility to take Medicare's historic guarantee and reinforce it for a new generation of Americans.

Making the expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit permanent as part of last year's tax deal is right up there with the ACA as some of the biggest anti-poverty achievements in decades.

It's time to move Medicare away from a one-size-fits-all approach and begin doing more to take into account the individual needs of patients with chronic diseases.

I previously revised allocations, aggregates, and levels in the budget resolution pursuant to section 4305 of S. Con. Res. 11, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, for H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare…

I would be remiss if I didn't rise during this debate on energy to address the administration's continuing efforts to wear down America's coal industry. As the Senate considers reform of our Nation's energy infrastructure, the importance…

I hope the majority next year will restore this tradition, no matter who is President and no matter which party controls the Senate.

What we need to find is that middle ground of the 80 percent, and we can get it done.

In my 20 years here, the only use that I have seen for that is for one party to beat up on the President's budget and the other party to proclaim the intelligence of that budget.

The President has a huge influence. He is one third of our structure of Government.

It would be real helpful if it were on a disk so it would be searchable.

I have been trying to get a capital budget since I got here.

One proposal that I have heard out there--and I do not know who it was from--was that if students complete their college degree and there is not a job in that field, they should be able to sue the Federal Government for forgiveness of…

It is time for a better budget process, one that maximizes values received from taxpayer dollars.

Neither side is going to get 100 percent. I have got this 80-percent rule that I have worked under where there is usually common ground of about 80 percent.

I had recently written a joint letter to the Secretary of Education about the Department's plan to issue a final rule on Federal student loans.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you for organizing this hearing and for your consistent support of retirement plan options, specifically Multiple Employer Plans.

I agree with Senator Murkowski that fire borrowing has been mischaracterized and conflated with the Forest Service's overall concern about its discretionary budget. Although I recognize the fact that the Forest Service has serious…

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for January 2016. The report compares current law levels of spending and revenues with the amounts provided in the conference report to accompany S. Con. Res. 11, the budget…

on November 2, 2015, the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 into law, H.R. 1314, P.L. 114-74. This bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 266 to 167 and the Senate by a vote of 64 to 35. Section 101 of H.R…

I have taken a closer look at the ornament that they gave me to give to the President. We are not only the energy capital of Wyoming, but we are also the energy capital of the Nation. We produce 40 percent of the Nation's coal, and the…

I recently traveled to my hometown of Gillette, WY. I am usually in Wyoming most weekends, but I get to my hometown only about every other month because I have a huge State to cover. I happened to get there when the senior citizens were…

section 4313 of S. Con. Res. 11, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2016, allows the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates and levels in the budget resolution for legislation…

I ask unanimous consent that LCDR Robert Donnell, a Coast Guard fellow with the Senate commerce committee, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 114th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 15, 2015, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________