Isn't it time--isn't it past time--for us to get past you looking at internally, even by an inspector general, and get a special prosecutor to restore the integrity of the IRS, whatever the cost, wherever it leads?

I have strong concerns with the Council, which, I believe, was one of Dodd-Frank's ways of preserving and codifying preferential treatment for large institutions with any hand in financial markets.

The Federal Government should not pick winners and losers in the market. Yet, that is exactly what a designation does; it chooses which firms are too-big-to-fail.

You are not letting the international standards be our standards without a lot of thought, I hope.

I have just got a minute. So in a recent speech--you are familiar with this, I am sure--the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine LaGarde, suggested that increasing the capital standards 2.5 above Basel III for…

I wish to honor the life and legacy of my friend John Key McKinley, a Tuscaloosa native, who passed away on June 12. John was a dedicated philanthropist and skilled businessman who will be forever remembered as a dear friend to the State…

this morning I wish to join my longtime colleague and friend, the senior Senator from Maryland and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Barbara Mikulski, in supporting the consideration of three bills before us today. All…

again I rise today in support of, specifically, the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, where I am the ranking member for the Republicans. I appreciate the leadership, as I have said earlier, of the chair on this particular bill…

first of all, I thank the Senator from Florida for his remarks, especially in the area of NASA, the funding of NASA, the importance of NASA, which he knows very well. We have worked together a long time and of course some of us--the…

the threat that North Korea poses to the Asia Pacific region and to the world, I believe, is real.

Our potential adversaries are acquiring a greater number of ballistic missiles. Increasing their range and making them more complex, viable, reliable and accurate.

I agree with a lot of people; we live in a troubled and an unsettled world whether we realize it or not.