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S.J. Res. 196 (Executive Calendar)
My colleague has got it completely wrong. There are less expensive ways to get a nursing degree. Indeed, my wife is a nurse, and she got her 2-year nursing degree at a community college. We were very, very fortunate to get even some scholarships to help her do that at a time when…
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I don't know how many have, but the bill has just passed. And I do know that market reforms permeate society. And as a student realizes, I can go to the community college down the street and get a nursing degree and pay for it entirely with a small amount of money, or I can go so…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I object. We just talked about the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would ensure that taxpayer funds aren't used or flow--these family planning funds--to abortion providers. What Senator Baldwin has talked about in this bill is the Reproductive Heal…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, today is the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. I just shared some reflections about what happened in my home State of Wisconsin when we reverted to a law that was passed in 1849--1 year after Wisconsin's statehood--that was widely vi…
Read on congress.gov →S.J. Res. 196 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, it is really kind of interesting. A couple of years ago, we were talking about student loan debt. Colleges were saddling students with student loan debt, forcing them to live in their parents' basement because they couldn't pay back those loans. If you look to the …
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 4876 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, just a few closing comments. The chairman and I are working very well together. I know he has probably taken some heat, so I don't want to say too many good things about him on the floor for working so well together. I would simply point out the part he left out ab…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object. Mr. President, I object. While my colleague's bill seemingly aims to assist expecting mothers with the burdensome cost of pregnancy and childbirth, I would like to point out that this legislative effort is not designed for success, an…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, you know, it is always so interesting to hear the objections of my colleagues when it comes to something that is considered a pro-life measure. And pushing this bill forward and listening to my colleague--it just shows me that once again, they are not standing with…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 2524 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I actually brought a bill tonight to be able to protect the conscience rights of individual healthcare workers. It doesn't change the number of abortions in America. It doesn't raise insurance costs. It doesn't do anything else. It ju…
Read on congress.gov →S.J. Res. 196 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I want to make a few remarks now about the Congressional Review Act vote we will be taking later tonight. And here is the thing. This is so straightforward, in terms of, here in the United States of America, pursuit of an education to serve the people of this count…
Read on congress.gov →Iran (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, for every American who is wondering what on Earth the war in Iran over the past 3\1/2\ months was for, the answer is relatively simple: next to nothing. Thirteen American servicemembers are dead. Thousands of Iranians have been killed. We spent tens of billions of …
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object. Let's be clear. This bill would roll back the clock by 25 years. It limits access to a safe and effective medication that has been approved by the FDA since 2000. Hundreds of robust clinical trials have demonstrated mifepristone's saf…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 1756 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I rise to object to this bill, which would restrict access to vital healthcare coverage and make healthcare more expensive for many Americans. Thirteen States, including my home State of Oregon, have passed laws that require insurance…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 4876 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was formed after the 9/11 attacks, understandably, to try to address some of the failures that led to those attacks. Unfortunately, I think we can now assess, a couple of decades on, that it is something of a fail…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, 4 years ago today, women in America lost the right to control their own bodies when an activist Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. For 18 months, women in Wisconsin were forced to live under a law passed in 1849 and widely viewed a…
Read on congress.gov →Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I rise today to address the events that took place exactly 4 years ago today when the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade, stripping away reproductive rights for women that we have relied upon for generations. That decision sent shock w…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, 4 years ago today, our Nation took the historic step when the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturned the so-called right to end a baby's life in America and returned the authority to regulate abortion to the people. Since then, the abortion industry has int…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 1756 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, it is toward the end of June, and 250 years ago today Thomas Jefferson was in the third floor of a rented space in Philadelphia, literally by himself, working at a desk that he had built himself writing a declaration--250 years ago literally today he was by himself…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 2524 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I rise now to offer my legislation with Senators Tina Smith and Patty Murray to restore funding for Planned Parenthood. That funding was gutted under the Republicans' budget bill passed nearly a year ago. In that time, 23 Planned Parenthood clinics have closed, and…
Read on congress.gov →Religious Freedoms (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, almost 250 years ago, 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress affixed their signature to the most influential document in the history of human rights: the American Declaration of Independence. Over succeeding generations, more than 100 other nations would m…
Read on congress.gov →War Powers Resolution (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, in a few minutes, we will move into a series of votes, and one of the votes is a motion to proceed to a resolution that I filed a number of weeks back, an Iran War Powers Resolution. The current status of that resolution is that, about a month ago, we successfully …
Read on congress.gov →S.J. Res. 196 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, in the United States today, 42 million Americans are drowning in $1.7 trillion in student debt--42 million Americans, $1.7 trillion in student debt. Further, a recordbreaking 9 million Americans are now in default on their student loans. Instead of providing financ…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Agreement--Executive Calendar (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all postcloture time be expired on the Jones nomination and that the Senate proceed to executive session and vote on confirmation of the nomination at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13; further, that if the nomination is confirmed, the motio…
Read on congress.gov →Order of Procedure (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, the cloture motion with respect to Executive Calendar No. 776 ripen following disposition of Calendar No. 432, S.J. Res. 196; further, that if cloture is invoked, all postcloture time be expired at 12 noon on …
Read on congress.gov →RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED TODAY
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following resolutions, which are at the desk: S. Res. 792, S. Res. 793, and S. Res. 794. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolutions en bloc. Mr. …
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