I thank the Senator from Iowa. I know Senator Durbin is sincere, but, my gosh, there is enough regulation and regulatory authority in this bill, including the amendments we have added voluntarily, to resolve any problem that exists…

Just yesterday, the Governor of Utah, the Honorable Gary Herbert, sent a letter to Congress addressing the negative impact this tax will have on our State. He wrote: As a Governor of a state with a significant concentration of medical…

Mr. President, I rise to discuss my amendment that would repeal the costly and counterproductive medical device tax in President Obama's health care law. In the mad scramble to find money to pay for his $2.6 trillion health spending law…

We were very happy to see the outcome of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in May of this year.

We need to take further coordinating efforts both internationally, regionally, and at the national level.

We need to up the ante politically as well.

It should not be elephants, rhino, and tigers that are behind bars. It should be the poachers and the smugglers who are behind bars.

I believe very strongly that one of the responsibilities of our committee is and always has been to make sure that issues deserving attention receive focus.

I am deeply grateful for this response from the highest political levels in the United States of America, and I am honored to appear before this committee.

It is just a matter of time before we awaken to poaching's consequences, and if we do not act now, then the time will come too late.

History reminds us that we never have the right to turn our backs on the values that define us.

Mr. President, as we recognize May as National Foster Care Month, we should take a minute to think about what foster care means for children in America. We currently have over 408,000 children in our foster care system due to abuse or…

How shockingly destructive and historically shameful it would be if we did nothing while a great species was criminally slaughtered into extinction.

I think it was very eloquently said.

This is a multimillion dollar criminal enterprise. The ivory trade stretches from the African savannah to the Asian marketplace.

Poaching is not just a security threat for Africa. It is also a menace to developing economies.

I think three things went wrong. First of all, this is a Supreme Court that, unlike most if not all other Supreme Courts, has no political experience. None of them have ever run for office, so they do not have a practical sense of how…

The great experiment that the Founders of this country embarked upon when they founded this country was to allow for a democratic form of government that was governed by the people--not kings, not lords, not pharaohs, by the people. It has…