Right now, we're hearing one side of the story. Until we get the full picture, I said this yesterday, I think it's hard to draw any conclusions.

today, Democrats are forcing a vote to repeal the administration's sensible rule to disallow bogus charitable deductions that are designed to circumvent the SALT, or the State and local tax, deduction cap that was part of the 2017 tax…

there are Members who object to this. They can't be here to object on their own behalf. I object on their behalf. I say to the Senator from Minnesota that, like her, I also want to do everything we can to ensure that our elections are fair…

over in the House today, the Ways and Means Committee is marking up Speaker Pelosi's drug bill, the latest installment in Democrats' campaign for government-run healthcare. Like Democrats' other plan for government takeover of healthcare…

I rise to speak in support of North Macedonia's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. North Macedonia's path to NATO accession has been a long one. Despite being regarded early on as a leading candidate for NATO membership…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).

before I begin, I, too, want to join with my colleagues who have preceded me and just say how sad I was to hear of the death of Elijah Cummings. We joined the House together. He got there a little before I did in a special election in…

Since I joined this body in January, I have done my darnedest to steer clear of the political circus that we see on a daily basis in Washington. Instead, I have worked with so many Members to pass legislation preventing child abuse and…

I thank the honorable gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse) for yielding. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to highlight, to call attention to a crisis that is facing our Tribal communities--really, our Tribal communities throughout the…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''

later today, the Senate will vote to confirm Barbara Barrett as Secretary of the Air Force. I have come to the floor directly from a meeting with her this morning. Ambassador Barrett has had an impressive career both inside and outside of…

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 2597 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

So then in that environment, we are doing a pretty poor job of targeting these important and scarce resources toward the families that need it the most, is that right?

So the law in search of administrative efficiency, did provide for some categorical eligibility that meant that people who qualified for some programs like TANF which is quite difficult to qualify for, that they would be considered…

the goal is to ensure that the eligibility standards that Congress sets for these programs are abided by and that the recipients on these programs know that there is integrity in this program.

And it is my understanding that a number of states have really strained that categorical eligibility in all likelihood beyond what Congress intended into what we are now calling broad based categorical eligibility.

the past 2 weeks have provided a kind of microcosm of the Democrat Party since the 2016 election--a combination of unhinged partisanship and a radical shift to the far left. In the past 2 weeks, we have seen Democrats call for not one but…