There is not nor ever has been serious dispute about the basic elements of this in the scientific community.

There is no doubt to me that this spending is necessary to see if we can even catch up to what we have unfortunately allowed to happen around the world with regard to climate change.

I would like to know if any of those, and if so how many of those, involved potential false statements made by nonprofits regarding political activity.

It is absolutely critical that the focus of that information reporting be on the wealthy tax evaders.

For the sake of fairness and for the sake of the budget, it makes a lot more sense to go after cheating by the big guys than focusing on working people.

Something is really out of whack here, colleagues.

If you are a wealthy cheat in a partnership, your odds of getting audited are slightly higher than your odds of getting hit by a meteorite.

The President has issued a memorandum on establishing the fight against corruption as a core United States national security interest.

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, first of all, let me commend Senator Gillibrand. No one has been as relentless in terms of trying to improve the Uniform Code of Military Justice, particularly with respect to sexual assault…

Congress should move very quickly to pass legislation to increase the visas, the SIV, for personnel that have been very critical to our operations in Afghanistan, and also streamline the process.

the budget requests that we're making answers the needs that we have, the gaps that need to be filled.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for being back before the committee and for your extraordinary work.

Mr. President, reserving the right to object. For the reasons I articulated on Monday and remain, I think, accurate, I would object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

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I recently introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Blackburn establishing a Civilian Cybersecurity Reserve at both DHS and Department of Defense (DOD).

Reserving my right to object. For the reasons I articulated on Monday, I object. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard. The Senator from New York.