Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remember Judge Leonard Williams, who died recently at age 78. Judge Williams was one of Delaware's most prominent civil rights leaders and a successful lawyer and judge in Wilmington. Judge Williams spent his…

Mr. President, today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to endorse a bill I introduced that would add approximately 9 miles of White Clay Creek and its tributaries to the existing Wild and Scenic Rivers designation for…

I believe that our efforts, and especially those of the dedicated men and women who work along the border, are paying off for the American taxpayers, and they need to.

I think we struggle with this as a metric--that is the way we are going to measure progress and making the border more secure.

The crime rates in their communities were at the lowest level in decades and were continuing to decline.

I want the bill to be better so we can pass it.

If we are going to have four drones there, we need to be able to resource them.

I mentioned, Senator McCain, before you got here how valuable our visit to your border, your State's border with Mexico, was for me.

Last month, I was able to visit portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona with one of our colleagues, Senator John McCain.

we have been talking a lot about the physical border and the security measures, and I can tell you, it has drastically changed.

Find out what works and do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that.

My real question is, is it a fool's errand to think that we can develop the technology...

we really want to work as a Committee to help you accomplish your jobs, not throw up roadblocks

Maybe we need to bring in 100,000 or 50,000.

I am concerned about two things in particular: refugees and student visas.

I just want to say thank you so much for coming early and staying late yet again--as we all are.

We need to focus while we work on the symptoms, which are more visible and which we talk about a whole lot, but think about the underlying causes.

For every President I have seen here since Ronald Reagan right up through President Obama, there is a similar kind of discipline at work.