Given the current backlog is upward of 244,000 and legislation such as the PACT Act could add another 1.5 million claims on top of that, what consideration is given to how the claims may be prioritized in the process?

it is critical that we ensure that your department is well-supported to continue that legacy.

So you think it is going to help?

Sometimes we need to use a little bit of common sense.

during the first few months of President Biden's term, he has tried to brush off the surge of illegal immigrant apprehensions as nothing more than a seasonal trend. But after month 6, seasonal migration was no longer a valid explanation…

I hope that this Committee will act on this expeditiously.

Sen. Shelby's introduction of S. 3443, the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act, is his latest effort on our behalf to provide federal recognition to the MOWA Band allowing us to join the family of federally recognized Indian…

Today, we are asking this Committee to support Senator Shelby's effort to finally recognize the MOWA Band as a member of the federal family of Indian nations.

I rise this morning to recognize the six teams from Alabama's Fourth Congressional District who recently won State titles in high school basketball. There were a total of 14 that were up for grabs, and schools from the Fourth Congressional…

I have been asked many times this week about my thoughts on the address to Congress by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. I was moved and inspired by his commitment to the defense of his stricken nation and its besieged people…

today I want to talk about the real March madness that we are having this month, moments about basketball and the tournament, but I want to talk about the madness of attacking title IX, attacking women's sports, and attacking women in…

I rise today to honor U.S. Marine Corps General Kenneth Franklin McKenzie, Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. General McKenzie is one of our Nation's finest military officers, and he will retire from…

first of all, I would like to say thanks to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for getting out here today and starting down the road to making daylight saving time permanent. I cannot overstate how grateful I am that this bill passed…

I would not count them out just yet. Because remember, they don’t have to have a precise military operation to accomplish what they want.

2 weeks ago, Russia initiated the largest land conflict in Europe since World War II. Millions of men, women, and children fled their homes to safety. Countless others have taken up arms in the name of freedom. President Putin's unprovoked…

we should ramp up everything that we can give them we should get Putin to want to come to the table, because he is having such a horrible time of it

What’s happening on the ground is Ukrainians are paying a heavy price they’re dying every day.

I rise tonight to urge my colleagues to support the Omnibus appropriations bill before us. The bill represents a massive bipartisan effort that rests upon a framework that preserves all legacy riders, rejects poison pill policy provisions…