I think there's somebody with the green eyeshade down there in the Office of Management and Budget who just thinks it's a cool idea to talk about selling the Tennessee Valley Authority, and we don't appreciate that approach.

So before we mark up the budget, and mark up our bill, I would like to know why funding was not requested for the next fiscal year 2014.

But if you're not funding it, do you think you can achieve it?

Is it number one in your priority? I mean, don't you think we should have the cost, the schedule, and the scope baseline?

I would say that that's a matter of the highest priority to get resolved.

Unless we're able to hold water from the wet years for the dry years, California will end up as a desert State.

I really believe that. And it will kill agriculture.

Senator Feinstein, who is the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, specifically addressed this issue that, yes, after the underwear bomber, she and others in Congress suggested to President Obama that they do not allow people to go…

I don't believe there's stovepiping going on.

What did he do when he went back for six months? Did he sit in his aunt and uncle's home for six months? Or was he doing something else? And when he came back to this country, why didn't it ring a bell with the FBI intelligence unit that…

What did he do when he went back for six months? Did he sit in his aunt and uncle's home for six months? Or was he doing something else? And when he came back to this country, why didn't it ring a bell with the FBI intelligence unit that…

I rise today to introduce the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013 with Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and Senator Collins as original cosponsors. This legislation establishes a single, national standard for the…

What did he do when he went back for six months? Did he sit in his aunt and uncle's home for six months? Or was he doing something else? And when he came back to this country, why didn't it ring a bell with the FBI intelligence unit that…

The scientific community broadly supports the next Mars mission as well, as demonstrated by its top ranking in the National Research Council's Decadal Survey.

This is life or death to California.

he's been really quite wonderful in terms of moving to see that the Department anticipates problems and moves administratively to solve them.

I'm a strong supporter of both of those. And if you need help, please call.

I rise today in support of the Marketplace Fairness Act. This bill would level the playing field between brick and mortar retailers and their online counterparts by allowing States the right to collect sales taxes on remote Internet…

I want to add my words of welcome to my colleagues'.

I want to express to you my view that this is life or death to California.

I think it will become familiar.

To make a long story short, we got a solution in the following ways: Certain lands were reserved for off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), lands were transferred to the Navy to become part of…

What it is going to do to us. It is fine for 1 year, but you add year 2, year 3, year 4, and it is a real problem.

But agricultural workers would be able to get LPR status in 5.

they could qualify to be able to do that, but no one will be allowed to gain permanent legal residency until after 5 years in the program.