
Because State after State has wrestled with these boundaries and worked it out.
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Because State after State has wrestled with these boundaries and worked it out.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak in strong support of the nomination of Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew Hurwitz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit is the busiest Federal appellate court in the…

I hope the House passes it and sends it to the President for his signature.

the Senate passed a bill that Senator Grassley and I did called the Targeting Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2011

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Lilia McFarland, a member of my staff, be granted the privilege of the floor for the remainder of the 112th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I just want to say that at this time I would oppose that legislation.

We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria. They have from time to time said that we shouldn't worry, everything they're shipping is unrelated to their actions internally. That's patently untrue…

Republican Senator John Cornyn accused Holder of misleading Congress about what he and other top Justice Department officials knew about the botched Fast and Furious gun-running operation in Mexico.

Stonewalling Congress is not a constitutional crisis.

you will not allow Congress to do its job when it comes to oversight.

Mr. President, people in my home State of Ohio know how to make things. We know how to make big things. For decades, Ohio has been a national leader in auto production, in chemicals, in steel, in concrete, in aluminum, and in the aerospace…

I am very proud of the record and what we've done in this administration during as challenging a time as we've experienced in this country's history.

These are two starkly different approaches.

We have come too far to abandon the change that we fought for these past 4 years.

Our job is just to make sure that we get that message out, that the facts are presented fairly, that we push back against misinformation.

Make sure that wherever you have the opportunity, you're mentoring and serving as a good role model to the next generation coming up behind you.

How can we tell one segment of Americans that they are not entitled to that security because of whom they love?

It is a commonsense solution, consistent with existing Federal civil rights laws.