Mr. President, I have come to the floor this evening to speak about the impending shutdown this week of the Federal Department of Homeland Security. At a time when the folks I hear from in Delaware, and I suspect what all of the Members in…

Yes, seven of the fastest growing economies in the world, according to the World Bank, are in Africa this decade.

As the Presiding Officer, along with Senator Johnson and myself, met the men and women of the Border Patrol last weekend, including Agent Garza, we heard about their work, and it is hard to ignore the fact that they might not know if they…

Mr. President, here in Congress, as the Presiding Officer knows, we do a lot of oversight. Oversight is focused on what is going right as well as what is going wrong in our government. There is a lot of each, actually. That oversight is…

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 President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

Madam President, last weekend--this past weekend--I was privileged to visit our Nation's border with Mexico. Not my first visit but maybe the most productive, most informative visit I have had. I had the opportunity, as a member of the…

I think Mr. Duffy suggested he agrees with this in his questioning, as well--immediately, because you would be imposing that burden on borrowers who would have to absorb that higher rate.

Thank you for your decades of good and faithful service here.

I look forward to working with you to find ways to strengthen support for smaller harbors.

I very much appreciate the additional $62.5 million in the fiscal year 2015 work plan that will fully fund the work needed to be done in fiscal year 2016.

To me, one of the core components of the emergency preparedness, emergency management is preparing for climate change.

I am also concerned about how DOE EPSCoR handled last year's Implementation Grant award process.

As you know, Delaware is an EPSCoR/IDeA State, and the EPSCoR/IDeA programs have been beneficial for many universities around the country.

we are leaving about $400 billion of money on the table of money that is not being collected.

Tom Coburn is gone, but that spirit that he brought to this Committee for all those years is still being nurtured by me.

Improper payments are a huge problem, and while they are being actually addressed, satisfactorily addressed in a number of areas, a big one that is still the elephant in the room is health care, Medicare especially.

But, we have made progress.

We know we will never be perfect. But we strive for perfection, because we know everything that we do, we can do better.