What is not to like? I think we can all agree that this has been a tremendous success to all of us.

I thank the Senator from Utah. Let me just say that during a televised, bipartisan meeting recently at the White House, the President suggested that we might be more collegial around here, more efficient in Congress, if we would just bring…

Well, I thank the Senator from Utah. One of the things I fear most is that we are having a tough enough time controlling spending. Dr. Coburn, who served in the House--I admired his time there. He went after earmarks and after a lot of…

on Friday, I voted with many of my colleagues not to accept the deal that was offered at that time, the CR to go for 4 weeks. I felt that was unnecessarily long. Also, I voted against it because I felt, like a lot of my Democratic…

I thank the Senator for yielding. On the 5th, as I understand it, the DACA Program will no longer apply. Those who have already registered, that registration will continue until it runs out. There are some now--I think the figure is some…

1 day into a government shutdown, we are in a hole as a body. I was just talking to one of my colleagues who said we ought to spend less time worrying about who threw us in this hole or how we ended up in this hole and more concern about…

Senator Flake saying that there are ideas up here on Capitol Hill percolating that give him confidence that a shutdown can be avoided.

I appreciate this colloquy. I appreciate my colleagues who have been through a lot on this proposal. Many of us have worked in prior years on immigration reform measures, and I think we have built up a level of trust between us that helps…

near the beginning of the document that made us free, our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote: ``We hold these truths to be self-evident.'' So from our very beginnings, our freedom has been predicated on truth. The Founders…

It is nice to have Senator Smith on the Subcommittee.

The words used by the president as related to me directly following the meeting by those in attendance were not tough. They were abhorrent and repulsive.

over the past couple of months, we have seen a lot of effort with regard to immigration reform and in particular to address the situation of the so-called DACA kids, the Dreamers who were brought here through no fault of their own and are…