I think the small businesses need protection before large businesses.

This is an important topic here today in our free enterprise system.

I echo what Senator Menendez just said about Venezuela. We buy $32 billion of oil a year. We have not affected their regime one iota, that I can see.

We have evidence, though, cause and effect of several other countries, Britain, Canada, others, having open trading relations with Cuba.

Cuba has increased the number of politically motivated arrests by 70 percent.

Just since President Obama started these secret negotiations with the Castro regime, since June 2013, there have been reportedly 15,000 political arrests.

Mr. President, today I wish to speak on S. 1, legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. I am proud to be a cosponsor of this bipartisan bill, which will approve construction of the pipeline that has been under review for 6 long…

I take offense about that. I think this is our irresponsibility over the last really 30 years... we have kicked this ball down the court.

I think the first goal here, in my opinion, is to make sure that we can live up to the obligations that we have right now.

I can assure you that I care very much about each one of those, but I also care about what happens past 2033.

the idea that this is a trumped-up, phony crisis is absolutely ridiculous.