Border security is national security, and I am trying to understand how $14 billion to house, transport, and provide other services to individuals coming here illegally, won't just encourage more to come?

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for up to 5 minutes, followed by Senator Graham for up to 5 minutes, prior to the scheduled rollcall votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

as elected Members of Congress, our most important obligation is the safety and security of all Americans. Events here at our southern border and across the globe are putting at risk the safety and security of Americans today. We are…

The Biden administration wasted valuable time and resources prioritizing the promulgation of a rule that was unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court for its overreach.

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

It is hard for me as a former regulator to imagine multi-State, multi-jurisdictional, linear infrastructure that doesn't have a Federal nexus somewhere along the line.

Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…

Let's face it, as long as there is chaos and uncertainty, there is going to be litigation and stays, and maybe that is a strategy in and of itself.

the images that have been emerging from Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas terrorist assault are shocking in the extreme. Our hearts are with the Israeli people in the wake of these atrocities, and all of us here in America need to stand…

The Biden administration wasted valuable time and resources prioritizing the promulgation of a rule that was unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court for its overreach.

The Court correctly limited the scope of Federal authority over wetlands consistent with the text of the Clean Water Act.

Let's face it, as long as there is chaos and uncertainty, there is going to be litigation and stays, and maybe that is a strategy in and of itself.

The Court correctly limited the scope of Federal authority over wetlands consistent with the text of the Clean Water Act.

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.

For those of us that want to go back and forward seven generations, my sixth-great grandfather gave his life at Bunker Hill for the cause of liberty.

For those of us that want to go back and forward seven generations, my sixth-great grandfather gave his life at Bunker Hill for the cause of liberty.

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

It is hard for me as a former regulator to imagine multi-State, multi-jurisdictional, linear infrastructure that doesn't have a Federal nexus somewhere along the line.