Now, that seems like a long time to spend in detention before seeing a judge.

I would submit that currently the immigration detention system has broken down because the detainees do not have attorneys who can help facilitate their cases.

today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to endorse a bill I introduced that would add approximately 9 miles of White Clay Creek and its tributaries to the existing Wild and Scenic Rivers designation for the waterway…

seeing the press of business here, I will be brief. I wanted to take the opportunity to rise and simply speak to the importance of the poultry industry, something that spreads across the Delmarva Peninsula and is central to the State of…

I rise today to reflect on how we can do what we so often say we want to do here in the Senate, and that is to help grow our American economy, to help create jobs for people from our home States and from all across our country. Yesterday…

should there be a change in the status of the Voting Rights Act, Section 5 in particular, I would love to work with you.

I think all of us are on notice that there is probably the single greatest widespread theft in human history going on at the moment, and it really does have a negative and cumulative impact.

I share the frustration and concern expressed by many other Senators about transparency on targeted killings.

the Founders of our country, committed to justice and fairness for all its citizens and in establishing a structure that would make this country uniquely strong as a democracy, gave us three coequal branches of our government. Two of those…

what has become painfully clear to me this week is that folks in the Congress, folks in the Senate aren't listening to each other anymore. As we lurch toward our latest fiscal crisis--the looming sequester that takes effect tomorrow--I…

My question for everyone--everyone--in both parties, both Chambers who goes to this important meeting at the White House tomorrow is, How much more time do we have to fight and not to act, to attack and not compromise, to spin rather than…

I ask unanimous consent for 30 seconds to conclude my remarks. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.