I reserve the balance of my time and the right to perhaps finish at the end.

At midnight tonight, our Nation is scheduled to fall off the fiscal cliff, because the Augusta Chronicle editorial of December 2 is correct: It's that stubborn adherence to big spending that's powering the momentum toward the fiscal cliff…

I am grateful for the opportunity to recognize Eric Dell, chief of staff for the Second District of South Carolina. Eric has accepted to serve as senior vice president for the National Automatic Merchandising Association. This is a…

Don't create one disaster in trying to solve another. Please vote no. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.

Mr. President, I would like to respond and to inform my colleagues about what would happen if this amendment were adopted by the body. No. 1, the foreign aid budget is less than 1 percent of the total Federal budget. It is about $52 to $53…

Good decision, Mr. President. Mr. McCAIN. But if al-Awlaki had been in the United States of America, a citizen engaged in the same activities that justified him being killed, then Mr. al-Awlaki would have been entitled to his Miranda…

Sure. Mr. McCAIN. Under the scenario as envisioned by the argument made by the Senator from Kentucky that if an American citizen is overseas, as al-Awlaki was in Yemen, and we took a drone and killed him, which was a decision made by the…

Mr. President, I want to congratulate the authors and managers of the bill in the House with coming up with a very good bill for our military which will have pay raises and trying to increase our defenses. I don't mind saying that I think…

It makes no sense, I say to the Senator. He would be entitled to a habeas hearing if he were caught in the United States, but he would be held under the law of war because the allegation is not that he was committing a crime but that he…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your successful leadership of peace through strength. The conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act provides our warfighters, veterans, and military families the care and support they deserve…

Today, the House will vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013. Congratulations to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon and committee staff director Bob Simmons for their leadership with this legislation…

With the negotiations surrounding the fiscal cliff, the administration is ignoring sequestration. This important issue must be addressed which devastates national security and destroys 700,000 jobs. In addition, I am grateful for the…

I thank the gentlelady from New York for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 6379, naming the post office in Ravenel, South Carolina, after Representative Curtis B. Inabinett, Sr. I want to thank my…

Let me first say how proud we are that the Governor of South Carolina appointed one of our colleagues, Tim Scott, to the United States Senate yesterday. We wish him well. I want to thank Madam Chairman for her leadership on this issue and…

Thank you, sir. Let me just say thank you to everyone. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in the House. To my delegation members, there is no better delegation in America to serve with than all of you. I thought I would get a standing…

Thank you very much, Representative Wilson. I didn't think I would ever live long enough or serve here long enough to call myself the dean of the South Carolina delegation, but I seem to have reached that point. I would like to add my…

As the senior Republican member of the delegation from South Carolina, it's my honor, on behalf of my colleagues, Congressman Mulvaney, Congressman Duncan, and Congressman Trey Gowdy, to be here to recognize--and I will be recognizing the…

Last Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was heartbreaking. Americans are devastated as reports emerge detailing how a deranged individual murdered 20 innocent children, six heroic faculty members…