the president did not try to use the Florida school massacre to attack the Mueller probe, that's just not true.

He has been tougher on Russia in the first year than Obama was in eight years combined.

I wish to speak today about the so-called Schumer amendment. Now, that is not the name that some people give it, but I will give it that name. Abraham Lincoln said: If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, it has…

I know there is some dispute about the name of this amendment, so let's just call it the ``olly olly oxen free'' amendment because it says to the entire world: If you can get to our country in the next 4 months, olly olly oxen free--you…

I think the taxpayer deserves to have them out, performing their job.

The principal driver behind us making modification to the course, it was not about lowering attrition, it was about making students more successful to complete the course.

If the threats from Russia and China and Iran and North Korea, potentially other now or future nuclear states were to grow and our leaders determine that we need to produce more than that number of pits per year, with additional funding…

They are very concerned that there are a large number of Venezuelans who are being pushed across the border, that are being encouraged to vote in elections.

Last year, the Senate ratified the Montenegro Accession Treaty to have Montenegro join NATO.

Sir, every day Russia is in a position basically to checkmate us with what they are doing. It is urgent.

Again, driven primarily by the threat that Russia has posed by both the rhetoric and the reality of their nuclear modernization.

If you were a Saudi leader or an Emirati leader, you probably would not be very happy about those missiles being able to range your citizens. Would you?

It remains so today.

I want to add my voice to Senator Blumenthal and his concerns about what is happening in Syria.

nothing has done more damage to the United States Air Force than budget uncertainty or sequester over the last decade.

The aspects of the INF [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty] Treaty that limit our ability to counter Chinese and other countries' land-based missiles, I think is problematic.

I think that is an important point. Almost all strategic discussions, certainly strategic arms control negotiations revolve around the bilateral threat between the United States and Russia.

There is nothing classified about my question or your answer, though.