I would like to cut off all economic aid, reconstruction aid, AID aid, any reconstruction money to Afghanistan, period.

We spent over $100 billion, the chairman said, $100 billion in 10 years, is that about right, Mr. Sampler, in U.S. money in AID?

I want you to find the list, get us that information.

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, in order to keep this bipartisan emergency legislation pending on the floor and to benefit 2.7 million Americans, I respectfully object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The objection is heard.

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 minutes in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, can you tell us the order of business pending on the floor? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is considering H.R. 3979.

I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.

Madam President, I start by commending my colleague from Vermont. What happened today across the street at the Supreme Court will be lost on most Americans. They can't understand why they should even care about it. The Supreme Court was…

Thank you, Congressman Young, for yielding. As an original cosponsor, I am very grateful for Chairman John Kline and Congressman Todd Young for their thoughtful leadership on this very important issue with the Save American Workers Act…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Admiral, Secretary, thank you very much for being here today and on these very important issues.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled his vision of a budget, which will reduce Washington's out-of-control spending and will put our country back on a path to prosperity. For years, the President has targeted…

Mr. Speaker, these are heady days in the State of Connecticut where both the UConn men and women are in the Final Four, shocking the world. Mr. Speaker, there has also been another team working hard in the State of Connecticut. That is the…

I differ a little bit with Congressman Labrador.

We need to get a lot more yield out of our forests.

This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture to review the state of the rural economy will come to order.

We need to be pushing this issue, and people engaged in this community, putting people back to work in an industry that is begging for it.

I want to sponsor a bill that says if you are coming from trying to get a visa from a state sponsor of terrorists, then you shouldn't be able to get a visa here in the United States.

We need 100,000 acres by June 1 to make this thing work.