You know what South Dakota has kind of gone through the last couple of years, with the drought in 2012, the devastating blizzard we had in October of last year, and tens of thousands of cattle that we lost.

This is an important provision.

I believe that law says driving miles, and I hope that that is followed when you look at this list, in trying to become more efficient, and better serving the producers.

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his observations about health care and more particularly about jobs. We are talking about a 13th extension now of unemployment insurance benefits which, in my view, does treat a symptom, but it doesn't…

I thank my colleague from Missouri. Senator Blunt and I have, as he said, worked very hard when it comes to the overreach of government agencies and the burdens of regulations, the cost of regulations and what that is doing to a lot of…

clarification regarding the recent announcement that NTIA intends to relinquish responsibility of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the global multistakeholder community.

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to talk about jobs. Once again, this week the Senate is taking up an extension of unemployment benefits, which will be the 13th such extension since 2008. Arguably, of course, we came out of an…

I shared the same concerns that Mr. Wittman did as well with the B-1s.

I wanted to just do a little follow-up with Dr. LaPlante on the question that Mr. McIntyre brought up about the cost of the Next-Generation Bomber.

You were very clear in the statement that we faced risks around the world, and we could use those bombers in the air when necessary.

Mr. President, yesterday the Democrats in the Senate held a news conference in which they rolled out their agenda, which has been described differently by different news organizations. The headline from the Washington Examiner said…

Mr. President, today the Senate will finally adopt, after some unfortunate delays, urgent bipartisan aid and sanctions legislation on Ukraine developed with the cooperation of a number of committees here in the Senate, and constructed by…

Mr. President, I come to the floor to discuss the fourth anniversary of ObamaCare. Four years ago this past Sunday the President signed his health care legislation into law. The measure was jammed through Congress on a party-line vote…

Is that guidance made public?

I would just say that a single standard would ease the way for getting the notification out faster and spending less time and money on lawyers and more on informing consumers.

It is time to come to the table. Be willing to compromise.

So Target is going to tell us today that they take data security very seriously and that they followed their industry's data security standards, but the fact remains it wasn't enough.

Protecting consumers from identity theft, fraud, and financial harm is certainly a goal that all of us on this committee share.