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How likely is it that a country, like Russia, like China, like North Korea, would detonate a nuclear weapon in the atmosphere above the United States?

Though we should always strive for perfection, we simply do not have the resources to achieve 100 percent security all of the time.

This is a fruit that is laying on the ground. I just want to hear a sense of urgency that we are going to seize this day, we are going to seize this day.

Have any of the Commission's recommendations been codified in statute yet?

There has got to be some way that the Postal Service is looking for a way to make money.

To address these evolving threats, we must always look to stay at least one step ahead of the bad guys or, in some cases, Mother Nature.

Threats to the homeland have evolved, as we all know, considerably over the last 15 years.

The high-altitude nuclear explosion EMP threat is real. It is very special.

But it will kill a lot of people, not instantly, and, that is up to the terrorists' taste.

When they asked Willie Sutton, why do you rob banks, he says, that is where the money is.

Is DHS required to implement the EMP Commission's recommendations?

This is not something that they could do lightly without realizing that they would suffer nuclear response.

Madam President, how much time do I have remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is no time remaining.

Madam President, the bipartisan amendment I am offering today with Senator Rubio--and I am grateful to Senator Gillibrand for cosponsoring--this American dream accounts amendment is about one thing: giving every child the chance to go to…

Mr. President, I am honored to join with the Senator from Ohio in cosponsoring this amendment. I, too, have recently visited an early college high school in my home State, which Delaware State College, our historically Black college, has…