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I am stunned by the revelations that we have had today.

Mr. President, we find ourselves debating yet another effort in the campaign against working men and women in this country. Over and over again in this body, and in State legislatures across the country, some have sought to undermine the…

Mr. President, the bill before us would make some important changes to existing law. There is little doubt that change is necessary; the Postal Service faces an extraordinary financial challenge, and it must make changes to take into…

Mr. President, this is a week to bear witness. Today, April 24, we mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day--the day on which we remind one another of the organized campaign of deportation, expropriation, starvation--and atrocity perpetrated…

If this body will not take action, we are going to put ag out of business.

I hope, and I still hope, at least while I am still in the Senate, that we will have comprehensive immigration policy.

I have tried for 10 years to get an ag jobs bill through, and I cannot get it through.

If ICE swoops in, farmers cannot plant, they cannot harvest, they cannot can.

I think we have to remember the 9/11 hijackers came in on student visas, went to schools that taught them how to fly but not to land.

We should not be having free trade with dictatorships. Free trade between free people is wonderful. Free trade with dictatorships strengthens the dictatorship.

I think this is a wonderful celebration today of many, many years.

The corruption level and the repression level in that country and in other countries in Africa is unacceptable.

I would hope that pressure from Congress and perhaps from this committee actually assisted you in having those prisoners released.

Did that in some way--has that in some way fed the radicalism of Africa today as compared to people who, if you would have had an honest democratic government in that huge country of Ethiopia, it might have been more of an example, a…

When I talk about engagement, I have always personally been engaged with the people and expect our Government to be engaged with the people of Burma and other repressed peoples.

Let us give amnesty to all of them no matter what crimes they have committed against their people.

They have killed and murdered more people than the ethnic groups were killing each other.

The Burmese junta did not take over to stop killing and they did not have some benevolent native in mind.