Last February, I was appalled to learn that Boko Haram had abducted 112 schoolgirls from a town in northeast Nigeria.

Although Rwanda's authoritarian government under Paul Kagame recently acquitted opposition leader Diane Rwigara of trumped up charges...

I also ask unanimous consent that my military fellow, our military detailee, MAJ Aaron House be given floor privileges during the duration of my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I have 2 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I ask unanimous consent that Robert Ivanauskas, a Federal Energy Regulatory Committee detailee with the Senate Energy Committee, be granted privileges of the floor until and through December 21, 2018. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I am here to talk for a few minutes about Major House and the work he has done in our office. We have benefited for the last several years from a military detailee being on the Intelligence Committee and on the Defense Appropriations…

I am honored to join my colleagues here to talk about President Bush. The outpouring of appreciation from the country has been significant. His son, the 43rd President, said that it takes a long time for the determinations of history to…

I rise because today we are voting on a 1- week extension of the National Flood Insurance Program. This will be the eighth short-term extension since fiscal year 2017, and it is unacceptable. My district floods every year, and it is…

this is insane, that here we are talking about--and I know, I am going to agree with you, as much as it pains me.

Could you just briefly respond to that, all the uncertainty, the uncertainty in cost, the uncertainty in technology, the uncertainty in acquisition strategy, the uncertainty in dollars?

I continue to have very strong concerns... about the interim strategy.

this is crazy that we are talking about--I think that Ms. Mak went through in her testimony and laid out the concerns about how these strategies are going to dovetail.

I have two topics. I want to talk in a moment or two about National Adoption Month, but before I do that, I want to talk just a minute about Russia's continued outrageous behavior in Ukraine and the most recent incident where Russia has…

some kind of paper trail where the voter has a chance to see how they voted and that vote is able to be looked at at a later date seems to me to be the ultimate safeguard when people question what happened on election day.

I think following up on a point that Mr. Palmer made, you know, they are voluntary standards.

I understand some of the concern about that, but I've also done both of those jobs and dealt with people over the years that have done both of those jobs, and I think they take it particularly seriously.

I think the new focus on how we vote and who gets to vote and when they get to vote and, frankly, I'd like to see a new focus on when the votes are counted.

I think by any standard, as we conclude this Congress, the House and Senate, working together, have put more legislation on the President's desk that has long-term impact than at any time in a long time, whether it was the opioid…