Well, I hope we can. I hope, Madam Chair, that is a bill we can move.

What I am asking you is, if you observe and develop, and I would ask this question also to the electric cooperative and to the utility industry, generally, if there are impediments here, please let us know what they are so that we can try…

Sandy Hook, Orlando, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, and now Parkland. The common denominator between all these awful tragedies has been the use of assault weapons. Built to kill, these customizable weapons have allowed gunmen to slaughter…

I rise to introduce the Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act, which would prohibit suspected or known terrorists from legally purchasing a firearm. I thank my colleagues--Senators Heitkamp, Flake, Heinrich, Toomey, Baldwin, King, Nelson…

today I wish to express my gratitude to Heideh Shahmoradi, who since 2011 has served as clerk for the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, or THUD, for her many years of…

I rise to join my colleagues, Senator Rounds and Senator King, in clarifying the intent of a provision from the Immigration Security and Opportunity Act, which has been offered as an amendment. What this provision seeks to do is send a…

I agree with the senior Senator from Maine on the intent of this provision and support working with her and our colleagues to move this date to January 1, 2018. I would also offer that to prioritize some actions does not mean to do so at…

on January 9 of this year, the President of the United States said: We are going to come up with DACA. We are going to do DACA, and then we can start immediately on phase two, which will be comprehensive. I think we have to do DACA first…

I thank my colleagues, and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

I consider your command one of the most important, if not the most important, in all of the commands that we have.

Hopefully we have just passed a 2-year budget authorization. Hopefully again we will have the final numbers within the next two or three weeks, and then we will be able to move forward.

I believe that China seeks regional hegemony.

The problem is right now they may have a benign intent or a lack of malicious intent. I would put it that way. But they are building up the capability which requires that we have to be alert.

Why in the world in this situation are we seeing a decrease in the activities of the Department in nonproliferation instead of an increase?

I hope that you will be very tough on your partners in these situations because my sense is from dozens of hearings here both in this committee and others that the private sector is not fully cognizant of the threat that they are under…

What you said at the beginning was very important, reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

The influence that we derive with them is by working with them to demonstrate how we do our targeting process.

I take it that we are now trying to play catch-up in terms of our capabilities to operate in a contested environment.