Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my 10 minutes be extended to 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Inhofe pertaining to the introduction of S.J. Res. 9 are…

I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, we are introducing today a CRA that is kind of interesting. This is something that has only been successful one time. I think everyone knows that during the past 8 years, under the Obama administration, we have seen…

Mr. President, I was not preparing to come down to speak today, but I just want to make a few comments because I have been listening to what is going on in one of the other rooms out there. Everyone is zeroing in and targeting a guy named…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a letter from Lee Boothby be printed in the Record in support of the nomination of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State of the United States. There being no objection, the material was ordered to…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for consideration of the Chao nomination be modified to occur on Tuesday, January 31. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, in 2010, when I ran for Congress, all the questions circled around the Affordable Care Act. Every townhall meeting, every conversation, everyone who caught me in the grocery store, everywhere I went there was a conversation…

I would tell you as well Senator McCaskill and I have worked for the past couple of years on something called the 'Taxpayer's Right to Know.'

I had mentioned to you when we visited in the office that my fear is that the cost-benefit analysis from any Administration has become a justification...

I would hope that we could also work together on all the budget gimmicks that are out there.

Mr. President, I rise today to support Congressman Mike Pompeo for the CIA. He isn't somebody I just met in my office to be able to talk with; he isn't just somebody I served with in the House. I know him personally. For 6 years, he served…

In recent years, many rural states, including Oklahoma, have underperformed in this funding.

I think defending America is the number one concern.

I think the old measure that we should size the posture and fund our military to fight and win two major wars in different regions of the world near simultaneously--is that still a good idea?

During the last administration, it was pretty well decided by the President--and a lot of the Democrats agreed with him--that if you address sequestration for the military, you have to do an equal amount for the non-defense spending.

I want to tell you how much I appreciate your taking the time that you did.

It is nothing that is in the agriculture bill. It is the overregulation of the EPA.

Of all the problems that we had, of all the overregulation, the one that scared us the most was WOTUS.