on Friday of last week as I was getting ready to leave to go home to the State of Georgia, the United States of America, and the aviation industry received notice that Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Airlines, will retire after a career of…

first of all, I am privileged and honored to commend Zippy Duvall, a great Georgian who just a few weeks ago was elected, in the 97th year of the American Farm Bureau, as its 12th president. Zippy has been the president of the Georgia Farm…

I rise to recognize another organization that is meaningful to all of us and in particular the Presiding Officer. It is called the USO--the United Service Organization--a private organization chartered federally in 1941 by Franklin Delano…

I ask unanimous consent, for myself as chairman of the Select Committee on Ethics and for Senator Boxer as vice chairman of the committee, that the Annual Report of the Select Committee on Ethics for calendar year 2015 be printed in the…

I rise to praise the ranking member and the chairman of the committee on the great job they have done on this legislation. I have worked for years with Senator Murkowski. She is a real trooper and has done a great job for our country and…

I agree with your letter in that you say you cannot fire your way into success.

We want to make every single month count for our veterans and for the taxpayer.

It is the little things that get you, not the big things.

I rise on January 20, 2016, on the floor of the Senate to acknowledge this day as the 35th anniversary of the return of 53 Americans by the Iranian Government to the shores of the United States of America after captivity for 444 days in…

I think it is important that we pause for a moment at the end of 2015, look back upon the past 12 months and, in particular, look at the Veterans Administration and the veterans who have served our country, looking at the problems that we…

No apology necessary.

Thank you, Ms. Voticky.