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The American people are sick and tired of our porous borders and of the inability of Washington to get things done. Every day that we fail to secure these borders, more drug runners, human traffickers, and violent criminals enter our…
I rise for a long overdue floor speech to recognize a school in my home State of Mississippi that continues to win national football championships, five, in fact, over the past 10 years. I can assure my friends from Alabama that I am not…
My friend from Nebraska, Senator Sasse, tells me he has remarks that will take approximately 2 minutes. I have remarks that will follow that will take somewhat longer than 2 minutes. I ask unanimous consent that Senator Sasse be allowed to…
yesterday the Government of Guatemala took a decisive step toward regaining sovereignty. Guatemala revoked the visas of and deported 11 U.N. personnel working for the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, better known by…
I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribute to Rex Buffington
I come to the floor this afternoon to recognize Rex Buffington, who is retiring next year after 30 years as the executive director of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership. Mr. Buffington had a tall order to fill in 1988…
Are there any changes or insights that you would like to share with the committee today?
I want to thank our witnesses for their testimony today. It occurs to me that we are extraordinarily well represented by the members of the panel today, and I want to thank you.
I do not think we are going to go back to sequestration, but we are going to have to take affirmative votes not to.
What we need to do here on our side is make sure you get the authorization and appropriations bills on time.
We will soon have a Republican Senate and a Democratically controlled house, and we are going to have to join hands as Americans.
We have to do better. We must do better, all of us, including the Congress.
It would put us back in sequestration, an unthinkable result, and an utterly irresponsible act that I feel sure this Republican Senate and this upcoming Democrat House will avoid.
It would delay almost every single acquisition program that we have underway, ground and air, to try to not just modernize but to create future capabilities for the force that we think we need to be to defend the interests of this Nation.
If we were forced back to a sequestration level, it would be more than just the Blue Angels not doing air shows.
They had no contingency plans for sequestration because it was so utterly irresponsible and unthinkable that it could not happen.