I disagree. And I know we are now going to vote on this matter, so I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The…

this amendment would amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow employers to give merit-based compensation increases to individual employees, even if those increases are not part of the collective bargaining agreement. Essentially…

Drug trafficking and associated violence affects many of our communities, and there might not be a better example of this situation than in Puerto Rico.

Peace and security in Puerto Rico is not a foreign issue, but a domestic responsibility of this United States.

Today's announcement will be welcome news for many of these kids desperate for an answer, but it is a short-term answer to a long-term problem. And by once again ignoring the Constitution and going around Congress, this short-term policy…

They are literally incompetent leaders. They have no idea how to run an economy, how to create the conditions for job creation.

we see the highest amount of repression, as has been said by those within Cuba, in five decades

It is not time to forget. We can never forget those who have suffered and died at the hands of dictators.

I don't understand how three little children, three orphaned children who want to visit their grandfather in the United States are somehow deemed--or denied a tourist visa.

I hope one of the things we will be able to talk about today and over the next few months are some new tactics.

the tactics that this administration has pursued are naive.

The Cuban people are no less deserving of America's support than the millions who were imprisoned and forgotten in Soviet gulags.