In hindsight, I think it is clear that Congress overshot the mark trying to prevent another Bernie Madoff-style scandal.

This requirement is devastating for small investment firms . . . These firms are closing at an alarming rate, in part due to skyrocketing audit costs required by a rule that is illogical for firms that don't hold customer assets.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to just urge my colleagues to recognize this as a strong group of bipartisan work by Dr. Foster and it received solid support in the committee, that it balances the law enforcement obligations to investigate…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4294) to amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to provide a criminal penalty for unauthorized disclosures of certain individually identifiable information by officers or…

Hopefully, Congress will pass a law and fix the problem. Well, why should it be so hard? They all say that they don't want to separate families, seems like it should be pretty simple to me.

Thousands of illegal aliens are removed every month without seeing an immigrant judge as a result of procedures in current law, including voluntary removal and an expedited removal.

Healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important, but the calls for harassment and push for any Trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable.

Mr. President, as some of my colleagues mentioned already, today marks 6 months since Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and sent it to the President's desk to become law. When the President signed the legislation, he helped usher…

Thank you, Mr. President. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following amendments be called up en bloc: Young No. 2926 and Tester No. 2971. I further ask that the time until 4:30 p.m. be equally divided in the usual form and that at 4:30 p.m. the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendments Nos. 2926 and 2971 to Amendment No. 2910

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Molly Marsh, a fellow in Senator Alexander's office, and Megan Parrott, a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the consideration of H.R. 5895, the Energy and…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today during National PTSD Awareness Month to call attention to this topic that is so important to the lives of our veterans and their families. Nowhere is the connection between PTSD and suicide felt more strongly than…

Madam President, I am pleased to present the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 2019. This is a bipartisan bill that funds the critical infrastructure for our Nation's…

Mr. President, I rise to highlight an issue concerning the industrial base that supports the strategic TRIAD. Currently the Air Force is developing the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent or GBSD. This will be the Nation's new land-based…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5788, the STOP Act, sponsored by my good friend Mike Bishop. This important piece of legislation would secure our mail system from fentanyl and other dangerous synthetic opioids that are…

Mr. President, I want to take a second to thank Senator Inhofe and Senator Reed and their staffs for all of their hard work on getting us to this point on the Defense authorization bill, which is so very important. Through the European…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Maryland for his remarks and once again for working together in such a constructive fashion. As he said, we have had a number of Senators from both parties sponsoring our amendment. I think that…