
I spent the last week, during Memorial Day week, in the Middle East. Angus King and I actually traveled to Baghdad, Erbil, Beirut, and Oman. And then Angus left out for Turkiye, and I left out for Jerusalem. It is exceptionally helpful to…
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I spent the last week, during Memorial Day week, in the Middle East. Angus King and I actually traveled to Baghdad, Erbil, Beirut, and Oman. And then Angus left out for Turkiye, and I left out for Jerusalem. It is exceptionally helpful to…

I wanted to thank the Presiding Officer and several folks because we passed by unanimous consent today a national monuments piece for the Greenwood District in Oklahoma. On May 31 of 1921, the largest race massacre in American history…

A Congressional Review Act says that if there is a piece of regulation that is put in place, a rule that is done by an Agency and it is put in place--especially when there is a change in Congress and the White House--that the next Congress…

I do want to just pause for a moment and recognize that two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were murdered last night here in Washington, DC, simply because they were Jewish. The murderer literally hovered outside of the Jewish museum…

The timing of Biden’s announcement is interesting.

Many Americans may not know that this is Police Week. It is a week when the Nation stops to be able to pause to thank all those police officers who served around the country and who literally put their lives on the line every single week…

I have six requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I spent last weekend along our southern border, again, as I have done many weekends, to be able to get down to the border in different areas. Last weekend, I went down to the San Diego-Tijuana border area. In that area, there are 1.3…

Medicaid was created to provide health insurance for the poor, blind, disabled, pregnant, and elderly. Mr. Speaker, as you can see from this Paragon chart, Medicaid is no longer for the poor and now serves more people living above the…

Every time I've heard President Trump talk about this, he's talking about making sure we know who's coming in our country.

Look, no president - and administrations - don’t get to dictate what’s going to happen here. Congress is not the Army.

We don’t have the huge bureaucracies to cut that the federal government did.

A ruling for petitioners would eliminate the buffer this court has long enforced between religious instruction and public schools.

Religious education is an invaluable benefit for millions of Americans who choose it.