
Biotechnology holds great promise for agriculture, and as the population grows around the world, and it is going to continue to grow very dramatically, food security will become a more important issue.
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Biotechnology holds great promise for agriculture, and as the population grows around the world, and it is going to continue to grow very dramatically, food security will become a more important issue.

I think it is important that we do review regulation from time to time to ensure that our policies and regulations are functioning.

I always tell them I have been doing this for 20 years and I am alive. I am a living laboratory for the safety of biotechnology.

If we fail to embrace biotechnology as a safe, affordable, and timely way to bring better food production methods to developing and unstable nations, we are ultimately putting our military and our country at greater risk.

Some on the other side of the aisle are criticizing us for politicizing these recent attacks by criminal aliens and releases by sanctuary jurisdictions. We are being accused of attacking immigrants. However, I just want to note that the…

Mr. President, tomorrow we are going to be voting on a very important bill. We will have the opportunity to vote to proceed to a bill that deals with sanctuary cities and immigration policies that are a serious threat to the public safety…

Mr. President, there is an immigration program that is out of control and not conforming to the reason the program was put into effect in the first place. It needs to be reformed or it needs to be eliminated. So I come to the floor to talk…

I suggest, instead, in this city, for example, it's probably much easier to get an abortion than it is to buy a gun or to possess one or to transport one.

It's hard for me to accept the idea that this is a nonprofit organization.

That's clearly a distinct profit that most businesses would like to see in their margins.

It is the political decision to include the Sunnis that becomes the lynchpin for success of the indigenous force.

I am troubled that the Iraqi government has entered into this information-sharing agreement.

This agreement caught the administration by surprise.

I think it portends a statement he's not making publicly, that the United States is not supporting him in a way that he needs.

Mr. President, I come to the floor to comment on an extraordinary about-face that we have seen from many of my colleagues across the aisle with respect to the filibuster. When I say ``across the aisle,'' I mean an about-face on the part of…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that floor privileges be granted this Congress for David Palmer and Zach Terwilliger, detailees from the Department of Justice. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Mr. President, today I am pleased to introduce, along with a broad bipartisan group of colleagues, a truly landmark piece of legislation. It is the result of months of hard work and thoughtful deliberations. It is the largest criminal…