So $22 trillion in debt, I think you would agree, is a pretty substantial amount of money that we owe currently.

We have to make sure that they are and that the child today that we are going to endeavor to have the best healthcare possible for them, that these programs are around for them.

If Congress is so gung-ho to call people up to the Hill, the list I would start with are Comey, Clapper, Brennan and other people in the FBI who perpetuated this absurd lie and this absurd idea that the President of the United States was…

the Senate will soon vote on the President's declaration of a national emergency. We have reached a moment of crisis, but it is not a constitutional crisis; it is a crisis on the border, a crisis of American sovereignty. When hundreds of…

I understand that there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 729)…

How often in the President's budget proposal are we spending less the next year than we were spending in the previous year?

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…

In order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to further proceedings. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 12; further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

You have got a tough job. I mean, how do you--if you look at the spectrum of the federal government, what we fund, how is it possible to come up with any kind of a plan, any kind of a budget that could satisfy all of the desires, all of…

I appreciate your not trying to supplant our local control in this budget, but I want to be clear.

I further ask that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Now, provide for the general welfare, I mean, that is kind of a broad subject, and I think we can have a debate that goes a long time about what constitutes general welfare and what does not.

As you know, while the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, funding the priorities of the American people while addressing our nation's fiscal challenges is not an easy task.

I have only gotten to serve with two Presidents while I have been in Congress. President Obama I believe loved this country, but never once sent a budget to Capitol Hill that balanced ever, not in five years, not in 10 years, not in 15…

I hope that the leadership on the other side will find time to present a bill to the floor of the House of Representatives where the entire Congress can vote on a budget.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of our Democratic colleagues. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I ask unanimous consent that all postcloture time on the Matey nomination expire at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12; further, that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the President be…