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The following Senators are ncessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson).

I am voting ``no.'' Impeachment is not in the best interest of this country. In fact, it has only deepened the partisan divide that truly plagues this country. When the Sun comes up tomorrow, I pray with all my heart that the anger and the…

Just a short note about Congresswoman Adams. I have the honor of serving with her on both the Education and Labor Committee as well as the Agriculture Committee, and, every time we have a committee hearing, I get an opportunity to see her…

For 22 years, Texas has been ably represented by Congressman Kevin Brady, who has done a fantastic job serving Texas in this country. But I do have to brag, he is still a favored son of his native State of South Dakota, where Rapid City…

For 46 years, the 120,000 Alaskan Natives in our country have had a champion working for them, fighting for them, advocating for them. He is the dean of this House and the former chairman of the Indian Affairs Subcommittee. Mr. Speaker, I…

Right now, we're hearing one side of the story. Until we get the full picture, I said this yesterday, I think it's hard to draw any conclusions.

The goal is to ensure that the eligibility standards that Congress sets for these programs are abided by and that the recipients on these programs know that there is integrity in this program.

So then in that environment, we are doing a pretty poor job of targeting these important and scarce resources toward the families that need it the most, is that right?

And it is my understanding that a number of states have really strained that categorical eligibility in all likelihood beyond what Congress intended into what we are now calling broad based categorical eligibility.

So the law in search of administrative efficiency, did provide for some categorical eligibility that meant that people who qualified for some programs like TANF which is quite difficult to qualify for, that they would be considered…

I find myself more and more affiliating myself with the comments of the President that in that environment it looks like Europeans are really taking advantage of us.

It seems like from the data we have looked at and from the testimony we've heard today, the pharmaceutical companies are not earning anywhere close to that necessary return on investment.

Civil suits often Act as a regulator to prevent negligent acts by companies that otherwise have no regulatory incentive to Act in the best interest of consumers.

I think the First Amendment is a beautiful part of the American experience and I think protecting religious liberty has long been a fantastic powerful part of our country's history.

Chief Justice John Roberts was dead wrong when he said in Shelby County that our country has changed.

Our democracy is in crisis. There is a frontal assault on the right of people of color to fully participate.

Congress has a constitutional duty to act.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Gardner), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mr…