Thank you, better ballistics training, use of gun stats, better use of data analysis, regional partnerships, I hear that all of those have been making a difference, and I am grateful for your personal engagement.

I was frankly very disappointed to see the President's fiscal year 2016 budget request once again only asked for half of the amount needed to fund these crucial programs.

Highly potent, inexpensive, widely available heroin is now killing many people in my hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and across my State.

I think it's a tremendous and effective program.

I'm an enthusiast for manufacturing.

NASA is strongly committed to maintaining a small/medium class launch vehicle capability at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility.

I look forward to continuing to work on Federal, State, and local law enforcement partnerships that can reduce violent crime.

I'm frankly very concerned that there is a proposal to transition ICANN completely away from Commerce Department oversight and management.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 50th anniversary of the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery and to urge my colleagues to pass voting rights legislation in this Congress. In 1960, there were only 66,000 African Americans…

In closing, let me just note that I am encouraged to hear that Senate Majority Leader McConnell now seems to be moving toward allowing a vote on a clean bill. I hope this change of course is the beginning of the end of this crisis for the…

Mr. President, in 3\1/2\ days, the Department of Homeland Security may well shut down. I speak as the senior Democrat on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for the last 2 years and, along with Dr. Tom Coburn, our…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Without objection, it is so ordered.

this is real and this is important to me. This is a serious effort.

Because frankly, we continue to lose ground against our major competitive countries, China in particular.

We need some men and women around here with courage, political courage, to do what I think most of us know needs to be done.

I don't think it is an accident that what we regard as the golden age of the American economy in the last century coincided with when we were building the interState system.

Thank you. My staff, at my request, did some analysis. They found in States that have raised revenues for transportation, 90 percent of legislators who voted for a revenue increase won their primary, won their general election.

I think we have the four right people in front of us.