We cannot justify doing what we should do in rebuilding our military.

Stable funding over time at the right amount, with paying attention to our people, will get us out of the hole.

I remember talking about this on the floor. What if we are wrong on this? And sure enough, we were wrong.

We ask that Congress end the Continuing Resolution and provide the funds requested in our fiscal year 2018 submission.

What I'm trying to be able to determine is the coordination of information, the local law enforcement and from data that's gathered from some of the work that's happening overseas.

The more transparency we can provide to the American people, to people of nations that see this threat coming, the better off we will be.

the greatest threat is the debt of our Nation.

What I'd be interested in from you all is, on a national security level and what you're seeing, what are we facing?

I think there needs to be a national cry for that.

I think that sends a very strong signal that any elections that are coming up need to be--we need to assume that there might be interference with that, particularly from the Russians and maybe from some other malign actors.

Madam President, if we go back over the past 20 years, it is hard to find an immigration debate that occurred that ended with making law. Immigration issues have been contentious over the years-- unnecessarily so. They have been emotional…

I appreciate that very much because that certainly is true.

the fact that we have all these regulations out there is really pretty outrageous.

I want to echo your words, both of you, in praise for Ms. Svinicki. She has been excellent.

in my area of Oklahoma, in western Oklahoma, it is very arid, and those people out there, of all the regulations that were put in by the previous Administration, that was the No. 1 regulation.

That is exactly what happened. And by the way, Fish and Wildlife did agree.

a lot of these costly and outrageous rules are about one thing and one thing only, and that is control, and primarily Federal control.

Andrew Wheeler, he worked for me for 14 years. You get to know a guy pretty well in 14 years. We passed more legislation together under his leadership, leading the Committee as well as my personal staff, than we have ever done before. He…