Anything that takes a broad cut at the baseline standards here puts States like mine in real peril.

But this morning a number of our colleagues, Senator Inhofe, myself, other members of this committee had the privilege of witnessing the signing of a major piece of environmental legislation.

Today is a day to remember not just because they are having a sit-in over in the House of Representatives; that is not memorable enough.

I disagree with that statement.

we have a moral imperative--whatever our faith is--to the least of these in our society.

Some of it was program integrity work, but also, I think, the idea was to make it permanent.

We need to think with our hearts, but also with our heads.

President Obama is going to sign into law, legislation, at 11:15 this morning, that the White House and I worked on for the last 4 years.

People would be better off going to work than staying on welfare.

I like that he is focusing on poverty.

Find out what works. Do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that, too.

we have a fiscal imperative to meet that moral imperative in a fiscally responsible way.

Not everybody likes the Affordable Care Act (ACA). One of the things that I like about the Affordable Care Act--among others--is that, when people actually do go to work and get off of welfare, they have health care.

Ultimately, it has been successful.

Here, in the United States, we are, as you probably know, people of many different religions.

there are some people in this country--some political leaders--I do not know that they have read Matthew 25

The thousands of Syrian refugees... have been instrumental in the fight against ISIS.

All right. Thank you.