Madam President, pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I move to waive the applicable sections of that act for purposes of the pending amendment, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore…

On June 27, 2012, Congress presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps, the Montford Point Marines. More recently, the personal story of three of those marines from…

I will be brief. I thank the Senator from Alabama, my friend, for yielding the floor. He asks an important question: Why has Congress not passed a budget resolution in a number of years? But he knows the answer. The answer is because we…

Madam President, Bill Daley is a businessman in Chicago and a friend of mine. A few years back he was the chairman of the Al Gore Presidential campaign. We all know how the campaign ended in the Florida recount. Bill was contacted several…

We want bipartisan sensible immigration reform which the governor said today.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my support for H.R. 6118, the ``Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012'' or TEST Act. This legislation will give the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) greater leeway when dealing with…

America remains a country where, if you work hard and you don't give up and you are persistent, you can succeed.

He enjoys strong support from the Jewish community in this country because they know he has been a steadfast friend of the Jewish state.

We have to focus our attention on people who genuinely pose a threat to our communities.

Look, when I came into office, I said I would end the war in Iraq, and I did.

As Commander in Chief, I've seen that our national security has been strengthened because we are no longer denied the skills and talents of those patriotic Americans who happen to be gay or lesbian.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, vice Henry Harold Kennedy, retired.

This was an assault on our embassy, a violent attack on our diplomatic facility that resulted in the deaths of four Americans.

The ongoing process of reconciliation and reform offers the people of that nation the opportunity to take charge of their destiny.

the militia that was investigated in Michigan had a larger arsenal of weapons than all of the terrorists who had been arrested since 9/11 in the United States.

Well, it turns out that when we wrote our terrorism laws, we thought it did.

Thank you. I want to thank this panel.

Well, I would just say that I would question whether or not you are consistent in allowing for enhanced penalties for terrorism but not for hate crimes.