I thought it was shameful that it took us 2 years to get two of those judges confirmed.

I will urge you to reconsider, based on experience at the port, two dredging cycles a year.

I am hopeful that we can work together to find resources.

Thank you very much, Chairman Alexander. Thank you both for your forbearance and for your sound and solid leadership of this subcommittee and others.

it is disappointing that the Administration's funding request is insufficient for what are the likely needs of the whole country.

I think it would make a significant different for harbors across the country, not just in my home State of Delaware.

I am pleased there is another $55 million overall in the work plan to complete the project, so I just want to start by saying thank you since I know not every opportunity is taken to thank you for budget support and for leadership.

Madam President, this is a day-night double header. That was the day game, and what I want to do now is focus on the second half of the story as long as time will allow me to do that. As the Presiding Officer knows, I come from the State…

Madam President, last month I came to the floor--in fact, I come to the floor just about every month--to highlight the great work being done by the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security. Last month I focused on the folks who…

Mr. President, tomorrow the people of Iran will go to the polls to elect 285 members of the Iranian Parliament, or the Majlis, and 88 members of the so-called Assembly of Experts, which is the body that will eventually choose the successor…

the patent system is the great equalizer, but it only remains the great equalizer if it is strong.

I hope you can commit to continuing this program. It is vanishingly small in the scope of your total budget.

If we are going to continue our journey toward criminal justice reform, we have to do a stronger job of managing reentry.

I was very disappointed to see the President's budget once again request only half of the amount required for these programs.

Thank you, Attorney General Lynch, for your leadership of the department at this most difficult and important time.

I just want to commend you for the $13 million funding request for Access to Justice initiatives.

the Child Advocacy Centers are a specific law enforcement response to a specific problem of child sexual abuse that I think is worthy of a specific appropriation.

I have passionately advocated for many years.