Alliance for Prosperity that we helped them develop, and so they are putting their own money against it.

Secretary Gates, you are one of the finest Secretaries of Defense we have ever had.

John, you are a hero, and I am proud to have served with you and proud to know you today.

It is great to see my friend from Kansas on the floor and looking forward to serving the next 6 years. One of the things I focused on as a member of the Finance Committee on the Affordable Care Act was the idea that we have doctors…

if I could speak through the Chair. I failed to mention one thing about Sorry Works, Seven Pillars, and what we are doing in Delaware. If we have that meeting between the patient who had been harmed, the physician and provider, and they…

I just want to thank our colleague from Ohio for recalling the memory, the life of John Glenn and his wife Annie. I was privileged to know him. I am an Ohio State graduate, Navy ROTC. I am a retired Navy captain and a huge admirer of John…

a few minutes ago, I sent up a note to you that I handwrote that said: ``Flattery won't hurt you if you don't inhale, so don't breathe too deeply up there.'' I also recall walking into a hearing with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy not too…

Where it is appropriate, sure, we need that. We want to make sure that it is done thoughtfully and in ways that it can actually contribute.

This is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end. This is the end of the beginning.

I believe we have that--and probably the best we have ever had--certainly the most expensive we have ever had.

I am not going to get off of the Committee. I will still be, I guess, the senior Democrat, but I will be the Ranking Member on the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works (EPW).

That is smart. But, what would also be smart is--all of these Border Patrol agents that are taking care of these kids, like day-care operators. That is not smart.

How do we change the mindset, to turn off the flow, so the parents will say, 'I want my kid to stay here and have an opportunity, have a future here'? How do we do that?

Come back to us in writing, if you would, please.

I think immigration reform is part of the solution, including the ability for workers in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to come up here, work for a while, go home unimpeded, and come back from time to time.

No silver bullet to resolve it. No silver bullet. A lot of silver BBs. Some are bigger than others--and we need to do them all.

I want to conclude, if I can, just by thanking you both for being here. Thank you for your leadership.

one of the ways to reduce the need for doing that is for us to do our part to help make sure that all of those little kids and their bigger brothers and sisters actually have a future in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

18 months is outrageous.

today I wish to express my profound appreciation and best wishes to my friend, Alejandro Mayorkas, who recently stepped down as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. During his 7 years of public service at DHS, Ali…

While she is still here, I want to congratulate the Senator from Alaska and the chair of the Energy Committee on being named one of the recipients of the Jefferson-Lincoln Award this year in California and just say how proud I was to sit…

most people are not familiar with the Jefferson-Lincoln Awards, but they are given out every year to different people, Democrats and Republicans, usually to people who are in public life. One of the recipients was Bob Mueller, a former FBI…

I come to the floor maybe once a month when we are in session to talk about folks who are a part of the team at the Department of Homeland Security. There are about 225,000 of them. What I do every month is pick on a couple of them. We…

I understand that the majority leader is going to be coming on the floor, and I will be most happy to yield to him. ____________________

I do not foresee the demise of the Postal Service by any means within the short term.