The terms of the settlement require that Congress approve it before the end of this month.
We passed a bill... loaded down with pork-barrel projects.
I am really pleased that the settlement agreement compensates the individual Indians whose accounts I believe were misma...
Does anybody have any shame, I wonder?
At what point could we face a severe fiscal meltdown in this country?
I am sorry I was not here to ask the Senator from North Dakota how you want to have a commission to cut spending and at ...
most of it was not for purposes of reducing spending. It was for moving money around for different priorities.
Members of Congress going to jail, corruption of the appropriations process.
the budget does not decrease overall, and the spending does not decrease overall.
Whenever someone proposes giving the President this kind of line-item veto authority, the examples they give are like mo...
And the last effort did not meet that constitutional requirement because?
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It has been very helpful.
I was disappointed that the only mention in the conference report of this is a report that I had asked to be done.
I think there is a concern, at least among some of us in the Congress, that we need additional detention space.
The whole point there is the deterrent effect of detention.
I think it is really important that not Department of Homeland Security but somebody outside the Department make that ev...
It is not secure yet, and the first line of defense are the Border Patrol agents.
the absence of any provision in the CWA that obligates Congress to approve a separate Act to declare what it has already...
