I have worked on something called mandatory minimum sentencing for the last 20 years.

You tell me that they are more guilty than the presidents of banks who have the responsibility for running that bank don't know that drug money is going through those banks?

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the war on drugs, a critical time to shine a spotlight on 40 years of failed policy.

I think it's imperative that we move forward on enacting the recommendations of the bipartisan IRB.

Without a strong mandate from the federal government, it's unrealistic to think they ever will.

This probably is perhaps the most amazing confirmation process I have seen so far in my short term in the Senate.

I would say that, as your neighbor to the south, the tolling impact would be harmful from our perspective.

I would tell you that a project-specific, merit-based system would be welcomed versus what sometimes appears to be a district-specific, red districts versus blue districts, funding formula that seems to be en vogue at times.

if you have reached a certain size, too-big-to-fail is 'too-big-to-exist.'

That is damn effective tax accounting.

I hope that we will enforce those limitations as the law requires, no matter how politically difficult.

I think this due date provision is constitutional.

the welts on my back for doing so took a couple of years to heal.

when Secretary Kerry appeared before our full committee he said that there was a 1- to 2-year window remaining for a two-state solution to be viable in the Middle East.

The budget that was passed by the House would gut the State Department and other agencies by 13 percent.

The truth is, the obsession with Benghazi is about politics.

The U.S. has now contributed $510 million to those suffering from violence in Syria with assistance that provides water, sanitation, hygiene, food assistance, shelter, health care and protection services.

But it certainly seems that with respect to the humanitarian part of this crisis that is caused by the ongoing slaughter of the Syrian people by Assad, that certainly even those nations with which we deal who have closer relationships with Assad would acknowledge that it is in our collective best interest to take some sort of action to at least stop or at least slow the bloodshed.