Well, I thank Senator McCain. My first view is it is better not to go over the cliff than to go over the cliff. But it is also important, as my colleague just said, to understand what we have accomplished. Let's assume for a moment--let's…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, violent crimes, especially mass killings, are often unpredictable and impulsive. The venues are random. The jurisdictions where these crimes take place include the…

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the matter currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is…

Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 2076) to amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the statutory authority for the longstanding practice of the Department of Justice of…

Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time and the right to perhaps finish at the end.

Madam Speaker, in conclusion, and I'm sure on behalf of all my colleagues, I want to thank the women and men in law enforcement for their service, their sacrifice, their willingness to do jobs that either we cannot do or will not do. I…

Madam Speaker, in conclusion, I just want to take this one final opportunity to thank Chairman Smith for his leadership, not just on this particular bill, but his leadership throughout the 2-year tenure he was chairman of the Judiciary.

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to recognize Eric Dell, chief of staff for the Second District of South Carolina. Eric has accepted to serve as senior vice president for the National Automatic Merchandising Association. This…

Mr. President, I would like to respond and to inform my colleagues about what would happen if this amendment were adopted by the body. No. 1, the foreign aid budget is less than 1 percent of the total Federal budget. It is about $52 to $53…

Don't create one disaster in trying to solve another. Please vote no. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.

It makes no sense, I say to the Senator. He would be entitled to a habeas hearing if he were caught in the United States, but he would be held under the law of war because the allegation is not that he was committing a crime but that he…

Sure. Mr. McCAIN. Under the scenario as envisioned by the argument made by the Senator from Kentucky that if an American citizen is overseas, as al-Awlaki was in Yemen, and we took a drone and killed him, which was a decision made by the…

Good decision, Mr. President. Mr. McCAIN. But if al-Awlaki had been in the United States of America, a citizen engaged in the same activities that justified him being killed, then Mr. al-Awlaki would have been entitled to his Miranda…

Mr. President, I want to congratulate the authors and managers of the bill in the House with coming up with a very good bill for our military which will have pay raises and trying to increase our defenses. I don't mind saying that I think…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your successful leadership of peace through strength. The conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act provides our warfighters, veterans, and military families the care and support they deserve…

Mr. Speaker, today, the House will vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013. Congratulations to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon and committee staff director Bob Simmons for their leadership with this…

Thank you, Madam Chair. And, Madam Chairwoman, I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership.

I do want to express again my deepest sympathy to the heroic Americans that were killed at Benghazi.