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Second, that SNAP is an important poverty program. That is something worth maintaining, something worth holding up.

For me, an important foundation of all of this Subcommittee's work on nutrition is, first, that we all want to improve the lives of Americans who are facing hard times.

I rise this evening to request unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from any further consideration of H.R. 962, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act, and I ask that it be taken up for immediate…

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

You are going to make it.

Stay the course. I do not think that our food service directors and our school food authorities... need the additional chaos of change.

Later today, we hope we will have an opportunity to vote on legislation that will fund the government and provide much needed support for border security. While no agreement is perfect and not everybody gets everything one wants, this…

Equal pay for equal work is just and it is appropriate.

I do object because we basically just voted on that in the Senate, and it was voted down. The President would not sign that. That would not become law. And the minority leader is holding 400-some thousand individuals who are actually…

I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committee…

Today I recognize Josiah Lindquist, an intern in my Washington, DC, office, for all of the hard work he has done for me, my staff, and the State of South Dakota over the past several months. Josiah is a graduate of Milbank High School in…

We have got to be able to share with an American public that sees an increasing defense budget, and they have got to understand how far behind we were.

I cannot imagine a Senate without Orrin Hatch.

From a securities standpoint, I have been following how Brexit could complicate the ability of American clearinghouses to compete in the EU and the U.K. markets.

I am not withdrawing my unanimous consent request. He can object to it, and we will work with him, but I will not consider that the final say. We will work in very good faith to come up with something better and come back to the floor…

Again, I am happy to do that, but we have not had that kind of engagement. Right now, there is, basically, a gun to my head, threatening me to take it or leave it. That is not collegial, and that is not a very high-integrity approach. I am…

We risk the chance that the public will see this as one more opportunity to tax them.

The former Indo-Pacific Command commander has testified that only half his requirement for attack submarines in the Pacific theater was being met.