I like to think that infrastructure is in my DNA. My father was Jerry Strobel, a civil engineer who spent his entire career with the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Now, that was back when it was still called the Department of…

I was unable to be present. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 120, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 121, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 122, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 123, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 124, ``yea'' on rollcall No…

Obviously, the real value is the deterrence value in the Middle East with our allies and right across the street with Iran, but I think there is a secondary benefit here.

Waiting over a year for a permit to attach a single fiber wire to an existing pole unnecessarily impedes the ability to bridge the digital divide.

A long time ago, I made the decision to stand by the people who grow our food, protect our country, and make our stuff. Now, for a moment, if we could put aside the ever-expanding definition of infrastructure, I think we could agree on a…

More than 90 percent of all the intelligence and national security challenges the American people and our troops face around the world, more than 90 percent of them originate in the five bad guy category.

We want warrior culture. We want people with indomitable spirit.

Our Special Forces needs to be the champion or the premier capability against counterterror.

I have just got a couple of comments because most of my questions were already asked.

every Senator depends on their staff to provide them with information and advice on the issues. Every Senator knows the importance of having good staff who can respond to the questions and concerns their constituents may have in dealing…

We can train our allies to do many of these missions. That is a force multiplier.

We see this manifesting itself again, China on the march, seemingly ahead of us.

It is basically this: predatory lending, resource extraction, and support for authoritarian methodologies in governance.

I believe this is inconsistent with sound diplomacy. It is a projection of our own ideological divisions on the poor throughout the world.

The World Health Organization's credibility is on the line.

to promote diversity and inclusion, and actually to expand...other types of diversity, regional diversity, rural Americans

I would like you to just find a pathway to help us get that done.

I think it is a critical new architecture for, again, establishing trust and economic well-being with continuity, using the best of the private market system with a little bit of subsidy.