we find ourselves in dangerous territory. While Republicans and Democrats continue to point fingers and hold fiery press conferences, a government shutdown is quickly approaching. The blame game is like quicksand: it has the ability to…

I know that one of the problems the CBP has had is that they've done all this new hiring...

And another related issue is that the Mexican drug cartel has a big presence in the United States.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Fiscal challenges

I appreciate you all recognizing that because, again, we don't make them there, but we do the training there.

I come to the floor today to introduce legislation with Senator Alexander of Tennessee that I believe will have a dramatic impact on the safety of our Nation's highways and interstates, called the Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement…

Kids today think marijuana is a joke. They do.

Right. And so where are you seeing these? In some of the things I read, some of these are not necessarily in U.S. waters, but they are coming from Latin American countries, maybe up to Mexico or whatever.

I want to thank everybody for being here, and I certainly want to thank Senator Ensign for being here.

Everybody made fun of Nancy Reagan's 'Just Say No' campaign, but drug use during the 1980s really went down dramatically.

OK. And also on the submarines, you mentioned those, and some are true submarines and some are, what did you call them, semi-submersibles?

we are grateful for your continuing support of the men and women in law enforcement.