It is directly related to the ability to have USDA personnel in Cuba, developing relationships with potential customers.

I would hope that we would be able to get work plans completed and we would get something over to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) relatively soon.

I am here to say unequivocally they are safe to consumers.

This is a budget, Mr. Chairman, that also will allow for an expansion of local and regional food systems in the bio-based economy.

We want to make sure it is a fair and equitable relationship, and that is the purpose of our review of those rules.

This is one area that has frustrated me more than any since I have been Secretary, because everybody--everybody--knows this is a problem.

the embargo statute basically prohibits the Department of Agriculture from using any of its market assistance programming money, so we cannot directly help promote, as we do in other countries.

I ask unanimous consent for 4 more minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Well, Madam President, it is another day and another tantrum from the minority leader, but it doesn't matter how much the minority leader jumps up and down or how much the minority leader stomps his feet, we aren't going to let liberals…

That leads me to a broader point. There is more at stake than the results of any particular case as important as those cases are. The American people need to consider whether they want their next Justice to decide cases based on the text…

Mr. President, an historic epidemic of drug overdose deaths is gripping our country. Over 47,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2014, an alltime high. Incredibly, that is more deaths than resulted from either car crashes or gun violence…

This is much more than a mundane process problem. It is a tragic result for individual rights and liberties.

I have laid out a strategy to defeat that ideology. I would take it back to our ability some years past to be able to identify their cell phones...

It is imperative that Congress reclaim it, not simply for its own sake, but because without it individual rights and liberties cannot flourish as the Founders intended.

I want to protect the constitutional rights of the American people, and I would like to be able to have this framed in law that reflects our constitutional rights.

Mr. President, I rise for the purpose of showing how one bureaucracy, the Corps of Engineers--and to some extent the EPA working with them--has already made farming very difficult and how, if the waters of the United States rule goes into…

Mr. President, before I start quoting, this is a story about a California farmer by the name of John Duarte, of Tehama County, CA. The title is ``One farmer's ordeal may signal agencies' actions under WOTUS.'' All John Duarte did was hire…

Mr. President, yesterday the minority leader came to the floor to disparage the work of the Senate Judiciary Committee and also disparage the work of the Senate as a whole. And, of course, as he does from time to time, he launched into a…