Is there a danger of some of the border States of Mexico becoming ungoverned spaces that would invite not just narco-gangs, but more sophisticated international terrorists to set up shop?

Our success in drawing down our forces and stabilizing Iraq rests on their performance.

There's more of a sense of expeditionary, and this is part of what General Mattis tried to work so hard.

Merida shouldn't just be a 1- or 2-year event, but it's a relationship over time.

I believe that the extent to which the country is under cyber attack is under-appreciated by the public.

I find it extremely discouraging that... all this committee can talk about is where Mr. Abdulmutallab was Mirandized.

Those resources can matter a lot when it ends up to thousands or even tens of thousands of attacks daily and weekly.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for up to 25 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I rise this morning to join Chairman Leahy's eloquent and inspiring remarks of yesterday and express my strong disagreement with the Supreme Court's decision released last week in Citizens United v. the Federal Election…

Madam President, our Nation faces unprecedented fiscal and economic challenges. This situation did not happen overnight. It did not happen in 2009. It is a situation created by 8 years of mismanagement and complacency under President Bush…

Mr. President, I join my colleague, the Senator from North Dakota, in rising to support the confirmation of Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. As has been pointed out throughout the course of this…

I happen to believe that very, very significant savings can be achieved that way.

If my roof has a hole in it and the rain comes in, the sooner I fix that, the less my family's long-term cost of that repair.

I could not agree with you more, and I think that we have a window of time... The fiscal knives do not have to come out in the kind of emergency ways that you are suggesting they will have to if we do not get ahead of this.

It applies to every single type of debt, including debts that the banks hold, except for one kind, and that is the poor residential mortgage holder.

But don't we have, in effect, a capital liability to fix that bridge, that if we were accounting in a full kind of all-in way, we would recognize some way?

The personal cost of these foreclosures really comes home to roost on people in ways that are agonizing.

Although the efficiency of the American bankruptcy system has been one of the great assets of our economy.