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We need to bring back a little bit of common sense and have the people associated with those tribes involved in that decision making.

I am not going to ask you to make commitments, but would you please look at and just agree that you will give it fair consideration that we find a fairer way to make sure that these folks that literally have homes that it is all they got.

I would just like--I am not sure that you even had a chance to look at any of the materials that we had shared with you, but there was a real strong concern on the part of Native Americans in the rural areas that the current formula in…

I think there was some concern that you are not a housing expert, and that you do not have a background in construction and so forth. And I got to thinking that it seems to me that probably running this department is not really brain…

I also ask unanimous consent that Matthew Taylor, a congressional fellow in Senator Cochran's office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 115th Congress. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so…

Clarifying that recent request, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for the weekly conference meetings but that that time not count against S. Con. Res. 3. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without…

I thank the Senator for the question. The answer is, yes, we have spent a lot of time not only because it is critically a very important item to address--because in the United States today we spend over $1.9 trillion a year responding to…

I thank the chairman for yielding to me today. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in support of S. 3395, the Prescribed Burn Approval Act. This is a commonsense bill that will prohibit the U.S. Forest Service from authorizing prescribed burns in…

AI has the potential to catapult the United States economy and competitiveness in both the near-and the long-term future.

I intend to support the nominee of our party and if anything should change that, I'll let you know.

I certainly thank the Senator from Indiana for his support on this issue. I will conclude by saying, this is a sad day for the U.S. Senate; that the minority leader would turn his back on terminal patients and their families, deny them…

Fontana has led the way here in environmental standards and other things.

The land under it, certainly.

I actually do believe a permanent right to be there, if we have no sunset ability, we have created a permanent property right in public resources.

I say no. I think we have reached a reasonable compromise.

I'm willing to talk to them about that.

Absolutely. Absolutely took it to help win World War II. There's no question about that.

No. My testimony is, it is not right.