Mr. President, I have been listening to the remarks of my friend from Wyoming. I noticed that he repeatedly indicated that what we needed to do in this building was to keep the military funded, to deal with the deficit, and to cut…

Significant Federal funding over the next several years is critical.

It is not necessary to write a better law; just honor the law that the Congress has already written.

I support this effort because it promotes the efficient administration and completion of Federal construction projects.

It's an important policy question and, it'll rapidly become an important personal question for----

I would suspect that's not geographically, sort of, distributed.

Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act or ``Dirty Air Act'' which will end the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) ability to regulate harmful carbon pollution. I will vote against this bill…

I am pleased to be joined by Senators Murkowski, Durbin, and Tom Udall in the introduction of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization. This legislation continues the important work of my former colleague Senator Gordon Smith…

Mr. President, today, we are in the midst of another rapid increase in the price of oil and gas at the pump faced by our constituents. Rather than address this issue in a positive manner, we are once again debating an amendment whose…

The United States Government honors, to the penny, all Government contracts even when doing so requires supplemental appropriations, with the exception of contracts with tribes.

Mr. President, due to my flight from Rhode Island being delayed, I was unavoidably absent for vote No. 47, the confirmation of Jimmie V. Reyna, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit. Had I been present, I…

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, many have decried too big to fail, but there may be a more immediate problem: too big or too complicated or too powerful to be audited.

We have to adapt to those changes, but I do believe that we can bring the same principles and the same desire for a sensible balance.

I really appreciate Chairman Leahy having called this hearing.

I do not know that there is an established privacy right cognizable under the Fourth Amendment regarding your location.

Pretty significant national security cost to precipitate with a Government shutdown.

I think it is important that we take up a cyber security bill this year and begin to move to repair some of the very wide open vulnerabilities that we have that are being exploited to vast effect by our economic rivals and our National…

Madam President, Abraham Lincoln began his famous ``house divided'' speech with simple, homespun advice that we should first ``know where we are and whither we are tending,'' before we ``judge what to do and how to do it.'' We are embarked…