Richard Shelby: “You cannot stop everybody from failing. You have to have a mechanism where the people who were unsuccessful get taken…”

In a fiscal environment with 8.5 percent inflation, the Department's budget request equates to a cut to our national defense at a time of unprecedented security risks.

I rise today for the last time here to address my colleagues on the floor. After nearly 100 years of combined service between myself and the chairman, I think that we understand the Senate a little bit. This bill, we know what it is--we…

As you know, the whole Defense request looks ludicrous to probably the majority of the House and the Senate.

Because the administration has refused to fund the construction of a comprehensive barrier along the border, it has been compelled to send the National Guard to deal with the consequences.