This budget could have been an opportunity, I believe, for NASA to boldly support human exploration after years of budget requests, in which I believe it was short changed.

It is incumbent upon this subcommittee, as Senator Mikulski has said many times, that we are accountable to the American people and to our colleagues, and you are accountable to us.

I think it calls into question some of the modeling.

It is unthinkable that we would make it harder for the Government to take money from a drug dealer than it is for a businessperson to defend themselves in a lawsuit.

It is an historic part of American and English law before America was founded.

Criminal violators ought not to be able to keep their ill-gotten gains.

But it is the same principle, absolutely the same principle of ancient origin.

I thank Ranking Member Waters. Today, I stand in support of H.R. 650, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act. Manufactured housing serves as an affordable and sustainable housing option for roughly 22 million Americans. In my…

Why did the Administration choose to remain with the triad--explicitly rejecting the elimination of one or more legs of the triad?

President Obama's Nuclear Employment Guidance rejects the notion of de-alerting U.S. nuclear forces while continuing to examine options to reduce the role of 'Launch under Attack' in U.S. planning.

Did the Nuclear Posture Review and its related implementation study examine in detail various options for the structure of U.S. nuclear forces, including a dyad and potential monad?

The consumers will continue to have the wide range of consumer protections that Dodd-Frank affords and which I think many of us agree with. Steering would be prohibited. We would still have truth-in-lending disclosures, which are…

Last year, Secretary Hagel provided a report... assessing the requirements for plutonium pit manufacturing.

As egregious as the activity that the agents were involved in, which is, in many respects, a crime against humanity because of the ages of these girls, could you not find a reason to reprimand or fire agents for turning over their weapons…

at a tipping point where we not only need to continue to build on the defensive capability, but we have got to broaden our capabilities

Thank you so much. I want to commend my colleagues from Illinois and New Jersey for having this wonderful CBC hour on minority health and the disparities that exist. I want to talk for a minute about how we in Congress have tried to…

It is absolutely critical to the functioning of our government.

During the vote on the Butterfield/ Scott (VA)/Lee/Moore Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H. Con. Res. 27 and the Van Hollen Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H. Con. Res. 27, I was inescapably detained in my…