What I heard from Secretary Mayorkas--don't take my word for it, you go look at the record, read the transcript. What he told me was, 'Oh, it's not my problem. We don't have anything to do with it. Not my problem.'

I am here because of people.

Regulations like workplace safety standards enforced by OSHA, environmental protection provisions enforced by the EPA...

Good morning and welcome to today's hearing on agricultural research and extension activities across the nation's universities.

Climate change is this real thing.

Members of this committee were among the very first to sound the alarm bells on China's insidious Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping's plan to extend China's influence across the globe through predatory investments, debt trap diplomacy.

This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.

Today, the land-grant universities have a mission that is threefold: to provide instruction, conduct research, and disseminate the instruction and research throughout each state through the Cooperative Extension Service.

At that hearing, we also heard about the backlog of deferred maintenance on research facilities across the nation.

Thank you for holding today's hearing titled: 'A Review of Title VII: University Perspectives on Research and Extension Programs.'

it is my great privilege to say a very few words in introduction of my friend and fellow Senator, Eric Schmitt, as he prepares to give his maiden speech on this floor. We haven't worked together very long in the Senate, but we have known…

My Republican colleagues want to pretend that thoughts and prayers are enough to stop bullets as if they do not have the power to make our community safer.

Do you not think that there could be something that you could do in the perimeter of the law that you have purview over, to reduce the number of children that you lose track of?

What do you do--how do you decide who they can be placed with?

You say you do not have jurisdiction, but you have bent the law to get jurisdiction to call these families.

They are diverting and weaponizing this international aid.

Florida is one of nearly three dozen States that have passed organized retail crime statutes.

You cannot get ahold of these children.