I rise to speak to the pending bill and a potential amendment Senator Vitter is preparing and hopes to offer, an amendment which would make sure that any increase in the trust fund for oilspills would be spent on cleaning up oilspills…

I rise to speak on a subject that has certainly had a lot of press coverage, and that is the trip by the Arizona Governor to Washington to speak with the President about the immigration issue in Arizona, recent legislation that was passed…

It begins with this comment which caught my eye: It's too bad we can't do the Census every year, because maybe the U.S. economy would then show some jobs growth. That is pretty interesting. The reason is because of the news last week that…

on May 25, Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote a column in the Washington Post explaining that Russia's recent agreement to tighten sanctions on Iran is not as significant as the Obama…

this amendment is fully offset. It is $200 million. It simply provides the funding for the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to extend a program that has worked very well in two sections of the border to a third…

This amendment is simple. It provides $200 million for extending the Operation Streamline Program to another border sector, in addition to the Yuma sector and the Del Rio, TX, sector, where it is already in operation--extend it to the…

I know there is an argument on the other side that, well, if we secure the border, then some people will not want to do comprehensive reform because they would not have any incentive to do so anymore. I don't think that is right. I think…

I ask my colleagues and the American people to understand what we are facing in Arizona. I ask the American people and my colleagues to understand the frustration that the Governor and the legislature of Arizona felt about the conditions…

The number of National Guard troops that would be funded under his amendment is 6,000 total. The idea would be that it would fund 3,000 on the Arizona portion of the border and 3,000 wherever they would be deployed in other places on the…

I will respond to my colleague by noting, these are the crime statistics that are never reported. Let's face it, the people who are accused of these crimes cannot go to the police and report what has happened. Again, there is an argument…

I am going to talk about both the amendment offered by my colleague, Senator McCain, to provide funding for members of the National Guard to be deployed to the border, our southern border with Mexico, for the purpose of better border…

We who are from border States have perhaps a better understanding of the violence--the dramatically increased violence over the last several years. In the last 3 years, 22,000 Mexican citizens have been murdered in this struggle between…

I am going to ask for the regular order with respect to the Cornyn amendment for the purpose of offering a second-degree amendment to the Cornyn amendment with one additional request for appropriations--namely, about $200 million for some…

I believe it can be done. The Yuma sector represents a good example of how it can be done. The Cornyn amendment would provide funding specifically for some of the personnel who are needed on the border and some of the related activity…

Mr. President, what I wish to speak to today is the START treaty which has been submitted by the administration for consideration by the Senate. The President signed the treaty on April 8 of this year, submitted it to the Senate for…

The bottom line is, there were concessions by the United States. The Russian conventions are essentially strictly based on their financial situation, not by any New START warhead ceilings. So what I think we should ask is why did we agree…

in the final hours of debate on this bill, I think we should be asking ourselves why we started the whole exercise in the first place. What is the purpose of financial regulatory reform? I wish to address that for a moment this morning…

A central tenet of the Obama Administration's security policy is that, if the U.S. "leads by example" we can "reassert our moral leadership" and influence other nations to do things. It is the way the President intends to advance his goal…

I, too, would like to address the Supreme Court nominee. I associate myself fully with the remarks of Senator McConnell, which raise an important point for us to consider. I will correct the record in a couple of situations because I…

I wish to briefly echo the sentiments of both Senators Sessions and Corker. They have both given a great deal of thought to the problems here. These are not political issues that capture the imagination of either the news media or the…

It seems to me, with that clarification--and I really appreciate that--that with that further requirement, it is hard to justify a good-motive leak when, in order to prosecute such a case, you would have to establish that he knew that he…

I really hope that we can call upon you as we start to try to formalize how we might want to respond to all of this for your advice in helping us craft ideas for our colleagues perhaps.

There needs to be a brighter line and a better transparency so that the official leak becomes the authorized official statement of unclassified information somehow.

Do you think that is good policy? Or would it not, in fact, be a rather simple and, in fact, important way to solve this problem?

We were talking on the way over about the need probably to replace terms like 'code books' with 'electronic information' and things of that sort;