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the Senate voted yesterday to reopen the government. I am glad that cooler heads and bipartisan good will prevailed before too much damage was done, but where do we go from here? The leadership of both Houses needs to negotiate…

Despite no evidence of voter fraud, President Trump ordered DHS to examine nonexistent Commission findings and 'determine next course of action'

the language in section 148 of the continuing resolution is included exactly as requested by the administration. It is consistent with language that has been adopted many times in past continuing resolutions. The appropriation for missile…

as we all know, our government is now in its second full day of a shutdown. Public opinion is swinging against what is happening. As that occurs, it has been interesting to me to see that the talking points have changed on the part of the…

when we passed tax reform late last year, we knew it would be a win for American workers and for the American economy. This win for our workers and families was long overdue after so many years of sluggish wage growth. Americans will see…

Members of the committee on both sides of the aisle agree that countering such threats demands enhancements to current security systems, including the deployment of innovative technologies such as computed tomography, or 'CT' machines.

A little more than 2 months ago, Administrator Pekoske testified before the full committee that 'the threat to international aviation is high and multiple terrorist groups remain intent on attacking our surface transportation systems.'

Congress has charged the Department of Homeland Security with important responsibilities associated with taking on evolving threats to Federal networks.

Over the past decade, hackers have breached networks across the Federal Government, including the State Department, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, and the Office of Personnel Management.

These hackers show no signs of slowing down. Instead, their tactics are growing more aggressive and more sophisticated.

I am told that there is a 54:1 benefit-to-cost ratio for what we have done so far in the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project.

This MR&T program and the other infrastructure that we have all around the Country is just vital to people's lives.

These are real benefits, real disasters, real damages that haven't happened to people because we are able to do this.

There is bipartisan support for doing as much as we can as quickly as possible to alleviate the suffering there.

You protect the privacy of your users, even if a Federal agency wants to surveil that public information for anti-terrorism purposes?

Has Twitter told these data analytic companies that the purchases of this data cannot be used for counterterrorism purposes?

I appreciate Senator Gillibrand mentioning the Island of Vieques and the situation in Puerto Rico.

So it wasn't so much an attempt to get one candidate elected over the other. It was knowing there was going to be loser and that relatively half of the population who supported that loser would think their vote hasn't counted.