The Committee on Homeland Security has long been engaged on the issues of cybersecurity, port security, and critical infrastructure protection.

Requiring the Coast Guard to complete a cyber risk assessment and ensure that cyber risks are addressed in maritime security plans, as recommended by GAO, is a good first step toward reducing cyber vulnerabilities at ports.

how can you terminate somebody because they have cancer? I mean, that is, you know, what I am saying?

as outrageous as Mr. Putin's actions have been in Syria, there's one thing you can say for him. He's standing by his only friend in the region.

there is not a country in the Middle East who we have a relationship with who has--who doesn't have doubts about America, in terms of its reliability and its trustworthiness to back them up in times of peril.

So, Senator Thune is sitting in his air-conditioned, huge, multiple-hundred-thousand-dollar implement in South Dakota, drinking his cup of coffee...

In my State of Mississippi, we have one of the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the Nation.

I certainly give Senator Cochran a lot of credit for developing the IDeA Program in the first place.

From my visits to Electric Boat and my recent visit with Senator Kaine to Newport News, I've learned that the Virginia-class submarine program is one of the navy's highest performing ship programs.

I understand that General Atomics' AAG contract is a firm fixed-price contract.

There is, of course, an appeals court in one section of the country who has expressed serious doubts as to whether it is legal. I share those doubts.

Reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi.

I am going to submit several questions for the record to you, outlining the objections of these people with a clean air agenda in the State of Mississippi.

if I understand the Senator's suggestion correctly, his amendment would create an automatic continuing resolution to fund the Federal Government in the event an annual appropriations bill is not enacted by the time the fiscal year expires…

I urge the Senate to support the motion to proceed to the Department of Defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2016. The Committee on Appropriations approved the bill on June 11 by a vote of 27 to 3. The bill provides $489.1 billion…

I am wearing purple today in honor of World Alzheimer's Month. As a matter of fact, yesterday, September 21, was World Alzheimer's Day. So I have chosen today to introduce a bill that I hope will lead to a major breakthrough in fighting…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the Senator withhold his suggestion of the absence of a quorum?

The American people are sick and tired of talk. They want action. For 3 years now, Senate Democrats have blocked votes on bills important to all Americans. They have blindly supported the President's failed policies and have shielded him…