I appreciate VA's support and the valuable feedback we received from all the stakeholders.

I want us to focus on the things that we can do to help prepare these universities, which in many of the places where they are located, they are the economic engines in their communities.

Currently, North Carolina A&T, which is an 1890 institution, receives less state-matching funding for grants from NIFA than their fellow 1862 institutions in the state.

Will you commit to working with Congress to improve the Department's preparedness to handle an FMD outbreak?

it is extremely important that Members hear not to blindly follow, you know, what comes out of the White House but to remember there is a whole set of obligations here that need to be adequately funded.

Mr. President, I will be brief. I think the Senator from Oklahoma is going to go into some additional details, and the Senator from Wyoming did a great job of summarizing some of the positive results that have come from our actions. I want…

Mr. President, I rise to discuss the new FDA Commissioner, or, more specifically, the role that the agency must play in tackling one of the biggest health crises of our day, one that I have personal experience with. Unless we act…

The possibility of collusion between Trump associates and Russia is still a subject of their ongoing investigations.

Mr. President, this explanation reflects the status of negotiations and disposition of issues reached between the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The explanation shall have…

So you have been working on it for 6 years. My information is that you posted this bill at 8 last night. The Congressional Budget Office has not given it a score. They have not told the American people how much it is going to cost or how…

What we want them to be able to do is have the ability--and I think you and I agree on this--to have the ability of free speech, direct from the pulpit, without fear of retribution or losing their tax-exempt status.

If a rabbi with a tax-exempt status starts to get involved in any political discussions that may not have to do with marriage or life, but let's say it gets involved in Palestinian versus Jewish, or who should be a leader, or that we…

Some have suggested that I'm so pro-Israel that I make Bibi Netanyahu look moderate.

I would suggest that those political interventions, maybe before we had the IRS, the long arm of the IRS reaching into Ms. Engelbrecht and others--but did they not--the clergy was not without a voice from the very founding of this…

So this whole narrative that talks about dark money going to churches in order to actually support candidates that may or may not be there is not only a red herring, but it is a red herring of unbelievable crimson red.

It's about making sure that the churches have no voice at all.

I couldn't disagree more with the ranking member in terms of the intent.

I think it is a jump, a logical fallacy. I mean, I'll just speak bluntly. I think that's a logical fallacy.