Errors in judgment have been made, to be sure, and it is our immediate responsibility today to learn from those errors, correct them rapidly, and move forward effectively as one team, one fight.

A month ago, the President told us someone with Ebola reaching our shores was unlikely and that 'we have taken the necessary precautions' to 'increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus does not get on a plane for the…

I restate my ongoing concern that administration officials still refuse to consider any travel restrictions for the more than 1,000 travelers entering the United States each week from Ebola hot zones.

October--next month--is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is not expected that the Senate will be in session next month and I would like to use this opportunity to visit just a moment about domestic violence in an effort to create a…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Domestic Violence Awareness Month

I thank my very good friend and our leader from California for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill. So this is the last day we are in session until after the elections. But rather than consider substantive…

I wish to engage in a colloquy with the chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Wyden, and with Senator Heitkamp, to clarify several questions that have arisen since H.R. 3043 and S. 1507 were introduced. I say to the chairman, the term…

effective immediately, I hereby resign my position as Commissioner to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. ____________________

I thank the gentleman for this opportunity. The President spoke last week and he presented nothing that could be remotely considered a strategy, and yet, the American people understand the destruction of radical Islamic terrorism is…

I thank my very good friend, the ranking member of our committee. I want to join with Chairman Rogers and Chairman Frelinghuysen in the shout-out to Tom McLemore. I trust, as Chairman Rogers said, that he is going on to greener pastures…

I thank the Chair for the opportunity to speak this afternoon. I am also pleased to see on the floor my colleague from North Dakota, Senator Heitkamp. She and I have a legislative interest in a matter now pending before the House of…

I ask to speak as in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act

I thank my friend from Washington State, and I want to associate myself with his remarks, as well as the remarks of the chairman of our Armed Services Committee and the chairman of our Appropriations Committee. All three leaders have…

We are about to begin a very important and difficult debate. Both sides have strong, credible arguments. But I would urge those who are opposed to what the President has suggested to offer their own alternative. Because it does seem as…

Do any of you oppose this legislation for this FFIEC Ombudsman on behalf of financial institutions?

While you are in the chair, Mr. Brown, let me thank you for the cooperation that you have extended to me and working to get S. 635 accomplished.

Congress has the responsibility to determine what laws should be in place, but that has to be in tandem with the regulator's ability to effectively carry that out.

I have introduced Senate bill 727, Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act. It is a bipartisan piece of legislation.