I am very glad that the President-elect has selected you to be our Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

I will stand up for our Army background.

my home State of Arkansas lost one of its great statesmen last week with the passing of former State Senator Stanley Russ. Stanley was a man of the soil. Born in Conway, he grew up on a dairy farm just outside the city. He went through the…

I think it is an appalling failure of our Government and our society that we have veterans who are willing to risk their lives for our country, and they currently live in worse conditions than they did in the deserts of Iraq or the…

I want to add my voice of gratitude to the many Members of this Committee who have expressed our gratitude for the men and women of our intelligence community.

I want to be more precise here.

There is a widespread assumption--this has been expressed by Secretary Clinton herself since the election--that Vladimir Putin favored Donald Trump in this election.

Donald Trump has proposed to increase our defense budget to accelerate nuclear modernization and to accelerate ballistic missile defenses and to expand and accelerate oil and gas production which would obviously harm Russia's economy.

I want to express my admiration and deepest respect and gratitude for what they do.

I respect you guys, you guys are heroes, I want you to know that from the outset.

reserving the right to object, I share mutual esteem with the Senator from Iowa. I hate to find myself on the opposite side of an issue with him. We had this conversation in February as well, almost 9 months ago. There are many fine…

today I wish to recognize James A. Ross of Cotter as the Arkansan of the Week for exemplifying what it means to be a great Arkansan. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Jim and his wife Mary Lou moved to Cotter in 1959 to raise their three…