Mr. President, I appreciate my colleague, the Senator from Connecticut, yielding for a question. I am proud to join so many Members of the Senate. I want to echo the comments of the Senator from Missouri, her comments about getting the…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman of the subcommittee. Mr. Chairman, the tragic mass shooting in Florida Sunday morning is but the latest in a string of terror attacks here in America. Sadly, these plots have not been carried out by…

Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of the Rep. Cartwright's Amendment to H.R. 5293, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017, of which I am a proud cosponsor. Rep. Cartwright's amendment would keep in place a moratorium on the…

I can do the same thing on the Third Amendment, and I can do the same thing on the Fourth Amendment, and I can do the same thing on the Sixth Amendment and the Seventh amendment, the right to trial by jury in civil matters. And each of…

Mr. Chairman, as the designee of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Forbes), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 8055. The Acting…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in recognition of our Virginia State parks. From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay, the Commonwealth boasts some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the United States, and for the past 80 years, the…

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the amendment offered by Representative Forbes and myself that would strike section 8055, a provision that prohibits modifying the command and control relationships between U.S. Fleet Forces Command…

Mr. Chairman, I would say to the gentleman that, when the Navy asks for the ability to reduce its organizational structure to make itself more efficient to do the things that it needs to do to indeed fulfill the role in the Asia Pacific…

Mr. Chairman, again, I would say that, based on the direction from the CNO and his directives of how the Navy is looking to reorganize itself to make sure that it has the ability to maintain maritime superiority--this came out just 5…

Finally, Senator, if I could do this, I know as part of standing on this floor, you are not standing here over words in draft legislation, you are standing here because of people. I sat with you, and we talked about people in your…

I would go one further. Not only is it consistent with what the American public wants in virtually any ZIP Code in this country, I think the notion of keeping guns out of the hands of bad guys, which for a long time has been the stated…

Here is where I am puzzled. For an organization that says that they are about the Second Amendment, they advocate a position that has no support in the Second Amendment. An organization that shakes their fists and says we are trying to…

Thank you, Secretary Brownfield. I wanted to ask you some questions about cyber, and I may get to one about fentanyl.

May I ask the Senator this since we have started to talk about this question. Has anybody come up to you and said: Hey, people on the terrorist watch list--we just shouldn't be worried about them. Why would we worry about people on the…

There is another part of the First Amendment that says you have a right to assemble. My understanding--and the Senator is a lawyer, so he can tell me if I am wrong about the right to assemble. You have a right to assemble, but a government…

It is in there for a reason. And it has been in there since 1787, and Virginians were the drafters. So it is in there for a reason, and it is important, just like the First Amendment. Let me ask the Senator about the First Amendment. The…

Mr. President, thank you for the opportunity to appear tonight, and I share my praise for my colleague, the Senator from Connecticut. We came to the Senate together. His leadership on this issue is something I admire, but more than…

I thought that was the case. I am a gun owner, I am a supporter of the Second Amendment, and I have been unaware of this body or any State legislature putting in a proposal to take away folks' guns, as advocates would suggest. Let me ask…