five of those ports have a heavy emphasis on cruise and cruise-related business.

PortMiami, obviously, is a critical job creator--a job incubator, if you will, for our state.

this cruise industry produces 120,000 jobs in Florida and untold amounts of economic activity because of this phenomenon that cruise guests fly in and they stay a night or two, getting ready for the cruise, and then they go to the cruise.

Madam President, we are going to vote on Judge Jordan, a Cuban-American Federal district judge, who has been named by the President to go to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Jordan came out of the Judiciary Committee…

programs like RMAP are critical to rural America, small businesses that make up 90 percent of all rural businesses.

if we do not broaden the base for feedstocks, it is going to be nearly impossible to reach the 36 billion gallons requirement by 2022.

Reserving the right to object, and obviously I am not going to object, but I want to say to the Senate that this is an example--89 to 5--that debate has been cut off on a nomination that has the bipartisan support of Senator Rubio and…

It is hard to draw an analogy other than to say that trying to put together something on a stop-gap basis might get us through 2013 but does not position us for what we might do years beyond and particularly with an aging stockpile.

Our new national strategy calls for an increase in our presence.

I hope that you'll take a very, very close look at this, whether it's the Council of Governors or just in general, to be sure that we're moving in the right direction.

To oversimplify, but to put in layman terms, it's pretty hard to fight in cyber space, cyber and space commands, with drop cords.