I urge you not only to advance his nomination, but also to do so as soon as possible.

The way I see it, the Director's job is to give the President the unvarnished truth.

today I urge all Senators to confirm Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mike is a distinguished Congressman, a successful businessman, an Army veteran, and he is my friend. I served with Mike for 2 years in the…

I want to add my voice in support of confirming Mick Mulvaney as the next Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

I have one request for a 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 committees…

Under your leadership can we expect EPA to be more transparent, in other words, how the rules are being developed, the science behind them?

For the past 8 years, EPA has acted as a political arm of the Obama administration time and time again.

In recent years EPA has made it increasingly difficult for Arkansas to manage its delegated national pollutant discharge elimination system.

For the president, especially a president who's made so much recently about the danger that WikiLeaks has posed to our national security, to commute Private Manning's sentence, I think it's very disappointing.

I thank the distinguished chair of the Budget Committee for giving me some time to talk today. She is a distinguished person, a colleague, a classmate, and somebody I have the utmost respect for. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the…

This bill will focus attention where attention is needed to benefit investors, our capital markets, and the economy the most. H.R. 78, along with the HALOS Act that we passed in the House on Tuesday, will help ensure that the SEC…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding me the time. Today I rise in support of H.R. 78, the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act. One can cut the hyperbole on the other side of the aisle with a knife today because we are not here…

I thank the chairman for yielding and for his leadership to set aside for us to visit with the American people and talk about empowering patients, not politicians. For 6 years, we have witnessed the failed rollout of the ObamaCare program…

I will stand up for our Army background.

my home State of Arkansas lost one of its great statesmen last week with the passing of former State Senator Stanley Russ. Stanley was a man of the soil. Born in Conway, he grew up on a dairy farm just outside the city. He went through the…

I am very glad that the President-elect has selected you to be our Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

I think it is an appalling failure of our Government and our society that we have veterans who are willing to risk their lives for our country, and they currently live in worse conditions than they did in the deserts of Iraq or the…

today I wish to pay tribute to former Arkansas State Senator Stanley Russ of Conway, AR. Stanley Russ was born in Conway in 1930. He graduated from Conway High School in 1948 and went on to attend Arkansas Tech University and Arkansas…