The powers afforded to you in this new position are more like 'broad and sweeping powers to offer advice.'

I introduced an amendment with Senators Rounds, Boozman, Murray, and Heinrich last year to the NDAA which I plan to reintroduce as a standalone bill as well to fix this problem.

I thank the Presiding Officer for the recognition. Madam President, I rise today as the ranking member on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. In our parlance on the committee, it is called the vice chair. Normally, our committee is very…

a political resolution vice a military resolution is necessary here.

We are going to keep pushing for one, and we hope that you will find a way to do this.

I believe this is outrageous considering the record amount of money this committee has approved for DOD in recent years.

Sheriff Vigil says the border is not experiencing the crisis the Trump Administration claims and he says building a wall and sending in National Guard troops would be a waste of money.

the National Guard is there because Customs and Border Protection have identified areas where they can be assisted by the deployment of National Guard troops to help them secure the border.

smart border technology would be a much more effective and efficient security investment.

An estimated 10,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed by Saudi airstrikes.

So here we have an attempt by Administrator Pruitt to emasculate the Agency by chasing off some of the best and brightest scientists, buying out people, doing everything he can to intimidate people to leave the Agency, and we are at a…

A September 27, 2017, article by Reuters with regard to EPA workforce reductions describes EPA's workforce declining to levels not seen in decades. The article says: In June, the EPA unveiled a buyout program that would contribute to the…

I have come to the floor to talk a little bit about Scott Pruitt and his administration over at the EPA as well as the current pending nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be the Environmental Protection Agency's Deputy Administrator. The…

I think it would put us in a constitutional crisis.

Iran will have the freedom to build an arsenal of nuclear weapons at the end of the commitment.

I think they should answer the question.

We are living in kind of an extraordinary time in terms of our Constitution and what is unfolding.

Cuba is about to choose its first leader who is not a Castro. Yet, the U.S. presence in the country has been reduced significantly.