In light of this morning's long overdue executive order on religious freedom and free speech, I rise today to thank my colleagues in Congress on their support for a thorough reform of the Johnson amendment, which has hindered the ability…

I thank my colleague from Minnesota for her wonderful remarks and for her wonderful comments about those people who go down into the mines every day. I acknowledge the permanent healthcare fix we have for our miners and their families that…

I would argue that we are going to have to put a lot more of our official aid in these failed and failing states.

I would certainly welcome those. Submit those for the record after the hearing.

So, Dr. Osili, we just passed some legislation that I introduced related to--we call it a What Works Clearinghouse in the area of our own domestic poverty challenges and other social pathologies.

I do think it is important for me to emphasize as well something I said in my opening remarks, which is that official government assistance is going to continue to play an important role.

I guess one other point that I would mention around Senator Merkley's bigger point about China is that what we see also--

avoid foolish, hasty, unnecessary, and perpetual wars that tend to accrue debt and erode liberty.

If we don’t get this economy growing at three percent, or more as the President believes we can, we’re never gonna meet the obligations that we’ve made today.

I mean on the international scene, here’s a president who’s said that NATO had to change.

Obamacare has failed. I mean it literally is collapsing all over the country.

The President has proposed one of largest tax cuts in American history.

Last night the President said, whatever your race or your creed that we’re all Americans, and we all have the same patriot's blood in our veins.

The president’s gonna be visiting NATO in just a couple weeks, and he’ll deliver that strong message again.

We have nearly a 20 trillion dollar debt doubled under last administration.

No it wasn't an over promise, and remember, this president has already signed more bills in the first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman.

Well when the President asked me to go to South Korea and Japan and visit our allies in the region, it was to reassure them during these troubling times, where we see increased provocation from the regime in North Korea, that America…

Every promise of Obamacare has been broken. Premiums have skyrocketed, people have lost their insurance, lost the ability to choose their doctors.