Full utilization should be supported across the board, as it benefits everyone.

I think in the private sector, they call that embezzling, and here we call it budgeting.

Shouldn't we be reducing Federal spending and letting people keep more of their money?

NIST is at the forefront of advancing innovation.

Article 1 of Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants the Congress the power to fix the standard of weight and measure.

I just hope that we will impose additional sanctions that were lifted by the Obama Administration.

the same policies that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says threaten 2.6 million American jobs.

Our patience is running out.

decisions that include a dangerous and wrongheaded trade and tariff policy that reduces America's income at a rate of $1.4 billion each month according to the Federal Reserve.

I think this hearing is an opportunity for you to tell us about how you are holding onto these institutions.

In these unusual times, that oath is being tested.

the American public is losing on the tariffs, and it is not just coming from me or a Democrat.

Is it too much for them to expect not to continue to be hurt?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 35, line 3, strike ``and stalking'' and insert ``stalking, and sex trafficking''. Page 35, strike…

in the last vote today we established a new precedent. The rules of the Senate are a combination of the rules of the Senate, the standing orders of the Senate, and the precedents of the Senate. Senator Lankford and I had hoped to do this…

I thank the chairman for his leadership and for his support of this amendment, and I encourage all my colleagues to support this amendment. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the…

I thank my friends across the aisle, certainly the Representative from Texas, Ms. Sheila Jackson Lee, and my good friend from New York, Carolyn Maloney, who I know wanted to speak today on the amendment but is held up in a hearing that she…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 15, strike lines 6 through 12, and insert the following: (G) in paragraph (16)-- (i) in subparagraph…