That is absolutely right, and that is precisely why we need these protections. That helps illustrate the slippery-slope nature of this problem. And it also emphasizes why it is that there are some in our body who want to make sure this…

That is correct. This wouldn't cover them at all because that person is outside the United States. That person is captured on a battlefield outside the United States. That person wouldn't be covered under this amendment.

Mr. President, what my distinguished colleagues from North Dakota and Indiana are proposing is to unleash the Export-Import Bank from the constraints under which it currently must operate and to begin authorizing transactions above $10…

The American people think they have taken hit after hit. And they have taken it right in the wallet. They are sick and tired of this. They feel like this economy has taken a meat-ax approach to their well-being. What they want to see is…

No. No. Due process can include habeas, but someone might say habeas corpus is the beginning of due process, not the end. Sometimes it occurs at the beginning, sometimes at the end, but regardless of when in the process it occurs, a habeas…

Mr. President, as my colleague is asking the question, I assume she has the answer.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. (a) Each amount made…

I want to begin by thanking the committee for the hard work that they have put into this bill and for the way the House has approved reducing our budget over the last several years. If every department of the Federal Government were to be…

I will have to say that people do like across-the-board cuts. Indeed, many governors, Republican and Democrat alike, use these. From coast-to-coast, they have used these. And our constituents like them. Take a look at the December 2012…

I am grateful to respond to both points made by my distinguished colleague, the Senator from North Dakota. In the first place, as to the need to have a full-throated debate, I welcome that. That is exactly what we need. It is what I have…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Frederick L. Dressler, a national security fellow in the office of Senator Ayotte be granted the privilege of the floor during consideration of S. 2943, the National Defense Authorization Act…

Mr. President, I have been asked by a couple of my colleagues why it is that I couldn't just have the good sense to let their amendments go through. I say let's do it. Let's have it right now. I support the amendment. Let's vote on it…

I object to the original request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from Utah.

If the Senator will yield, I will answer---- Mr. McCAIN. Let me finish. Don't you understand what is at stake here? Do you respect General Petraeus, General Nicholson, and General McChrystal? Every one of them has written to us and said…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I sat here and I heard some fairly hyperbolic arguments--arguments suggesting somehow that anyone who has other amendments they would like to have considered are somehow unpatriotic or…

There is so much that has been said appropriately about Muhammad Ali that people in this era might not realize that when he was fighting, all of America really looked forward to his fights and watched them. The eyes of the Nation were…

I want to thank Mr. Yarmuth for putting together this hour. I think it is important that we recognize icons in our society and people who have contributed so much, as you well expressed, to American culture and to the thinking in our…

I thank my colleagues for the work that they have done on this issue. Mr. Speaker, they have each mentioned the public-private partnership that has taken place in Tennessee and Mississippi and at the Shiloh National Military Park. I think…