I'm a big supporter of whistleblowers. In fact, I passed legislation a couple of years ago within the Peace Corps to create a whistleblower standard in the Peace Corps that had not existed before.

You've just underlined my point, because we all know the fear is the inspector.

I think for those of us who watch this, for those of us who actually look at Israel as a preeminent ally and friend in the region, to consider anything that an outreach from the Palestinian organization to Hamas is anything of clipping…

Seventy million dollars security assistance for Palestinian Authority was requested in the President's budget for training, equipment, infrastructure for Palestinian security forces.

That is a bunch of bull.

Let us just assume, which I believe many do, including myself, that there is a good probability that this Hamas agreement is going to go through.

Do you plan to proceed even if Hamas--if the agreement is made?

This is a reduction. Over the past few years we spent more because we were basically training hundreds if not thousands of them in Jordan at this police institute in Jordan.

I would like to submit for the record a letter from the Committee for Education Funding, which points out a lot of problems with the Ryan budget.

We need to make sure we have the appropriate investments in education.

Today's hearing of the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture will review the current health of our nation's bee pollinators.

I don't see that issue here with the USDA, and I just wonder what your opinion is of the collaboration between the USDA, your industry, and do you really think in Congress there is a role for us to play in this very complicated issue?

Our competitive advantage in a global economy is a well-educated workforce.

Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to an invaluable member of my staff on the Select Committee on Intelligence, Andrew Kerr. Andrew has been a familiar face around the committee for the last 7 years, but he will leave us shortly to…

Mr. President, I thank the leader for the introduction and I am very pleased to introduce today the Reverend Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He is a gifted author, a gifted and prolific preacher…

the actuarial clock is ticking on our country in terms of debt and deficit, and all of us in both parties are going to have to sit around a table and talk about some very difficult discussions.

I personally think calling Social Security and Medicare an entitlement is a little bit wrong, because I have paid 1.35 percent of my income for Medicare since 1968 and 6.2 percent of my income for FICA taxes for Social Security.

I was one of eight Republicans who met for a series of 8 weeks with Denis McDonough.