It is a big issue, and it is more than just the $10 million to the City of Rio Rancho.

I really appreciate your good bipartisan work.

Programs that help provide sustainable water management are crucial and need to be adequately funded.

What is needed is honest, fact-based discussion and a genuine bipartisan commitment to solutions.

Mr. President, each time I have taken to the floor to comment on the Ukrainian crisis which I have done often the situation in that hard pressed country is worse. Today we see renewed and even more violent Russian aggression ripping off…

We are supposed to be, and historically have been, the nuclear umbrella. Our umbrella has holes in it.

Mr. President, I wish to make a unanimous consent request that Lt. Col. Anthony McCarty, a defense fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this year. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Madam President, along with Senator Hatch, we have a concern we want to share with this body. One of the reasons I do is because I had planned to go ahead and introduce the bill having to do with the AUMF. In fact, I actually had…

I believe it is time to reverse this trend.

If a regulation's costs outweigh its benefits, I believe it should be thrown out.

I believe that we can all agree that community banks and credit unions play a vital role in our local economies.

I hope this Committee will produce that sort of movement.

I have been concerned about Iran for ever since our unclassified intelligence came out in 2007 talking about when they were going to have the capabilities, being 2015.

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Tennessee, Mr. Alexander, for his comments. I don't think I have ever heard it put quite as concisely or the timeline explained quite as well as he did. I hope people are paying attention. I hope…

Under a successful Congressional Review Act disapproval, the agency in question is prohibited from issuing any substantially similar regulation. That means the National Labor Relations Board could not just reissue this regulation again and…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the…

I hope we can begin to focus more on those ports.

Thank you, Senator Fischer, for holding this hearing, and you and Senator Blumenthal for drawing attention to this issue.