Apparently, the Office of Legal Counsel leaves it to the discretion of the agency.

I have been beating this drum so many times, but yes, it is in the authorization--it is in the reauthorization, and we are going to try to make sure the money is there, also.

the real wall, Mr. President, is the Coast Guard.

I said earlier in my view the Coast Guard is the wall.

In order for us to do so, we need to have from the Coast Guard your full requirements for funding to meet the program that is of record.

It seems to me that it is time for us to fully fund the requirements of the Coast Guard in every way.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 390, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief and Accountability Act of 2017. In March of 2016, Congress declared in unequivocal terms that the persecution of Christians, Yezidis, and other…

Mr. Chairman, my experience at the Department of the Interior is that there is a step in here, and that is the Office of Management and Budget sends to the agencies the parameters in which they must then develop their budget.

Unless there are consequences in any field, the generations that come behind them, even though the rules have changed, don't see that there are consequences for bad behavior.

I always think of President Lincoln saying that he had to do what he did because that oath he took was registered in Heaven.

Without that information, we cannot do our job. That is the job of making choices.

We really need to know what the Coast Guard needs, unscrubbed, uncensored, and direct from the Coast Guard without OMB.

It's my understanding that you furnished an environmental impact statement, finding that long-term radioactive risk to groundwater would not exceed environmental standards over the next million years.

I believe that Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution to the nuclear waste stalemate.

It's been 24 years we've been doing this.

Yes. We've got to do something.

This industry has got to work with us to solve these problems.

And I've always felt that's the way the Senate should function.