Several years ago, I wrote a letter to President Obama indicating my willingness and desire to work with him on welfare reform.

Welfare programs--and the individuals they are designed to help--have become just another pawn in the endless partisan conflict.

This administration has attempted to bypass the Congress and create regulatory schemes not authorized under the statute.

May I have 1 minute to speak to that point? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I think we have clearance on a noncontroversial resolution that is going to pass yet this evening, and I rise for about 5 minutes to speak on this issue. Last week I submitted a resolution to commemorate the goals and ideals of National…

I wish to commemorate my friend and colleague for casting his 15,000th vote today in the Senate. Senator Leahy has been a stalwart Member of this body since joining the Senate at the age of 34 in 1975. Four decades later, Senator Leahy…

I appreciate my colleague bringing up the history of Andrei Sakharov Plaza. A lot of people wonder whether this makes much of a difference, what the Senator is attempting to do in the case of the Chinese Embassy. I can tell you it made a…

I rise to express my strong support for the bill before the Senate, S. 754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, and I want to thank the bill's managers for their leadership in drafting this bill and putting a lot of hard work into…

Biotechnology holds great promise for agriculture, and as the population grows around the world, and it is going to continue to grow very dramatically, food security will become a more important issue.

I always tell them I have been doing this for 20 years and I am alive. I am a living laboratory for the safety of biotechnology.

I think it is important that we do review regulation from time to time to ensure that our policies and regulations are functioning.

tomorrow we are going to be voting on a very important bill. We will have the opportunity to vote to proceed to a bill that deals with sanctuary cities and immigration policies that are a serious threat to the public safety. We will move…

Some on the other side of the aisle are criticizing us for politicizing these recent attacks by criminal aliens and releases by sanctuary jurisdictions. We are being accused of attacking immigrants. However, I just want to note that the…

there is an immigration program that is out of control and not conforming to the reason the program was put into effect in the first place. It needs to be reformed or it needs to be eliminated. So I come to the floor to talk about this…

I come to the floor to comment on an extraordinary about-face that we have seen from many of my colleagues across the aisle with respect to the filibuster. When I say ``across the aisle,'' I mean an about-face on the part of Democrats who…

today I am pleased to introduce, along with a broad bipartisan group of colleagues, a truly landmark piece of legislation. It is the result of months of hard work and thoughtful deliberations. It is the largest criminal justice reform bill…

I ask unanimous consent that floor privileges be granted this Congress for David Palmer and Zach Terwilliger, detailees from the Department of Justice. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I intend to object to any unanimous consent request at the present time relating to the nomination of Brian James Egan, of Maryland, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State. I will object because the Department of State has failed…

I don't know how many times I have come to the floor in the last several years or maybe in the last several days to talk about energy. In the process of talking energy, I always say I am for ``all of the above,'' as a lot of my colleagues…

CMS does not have evidence indicating that locum tenens, as used by physicians under current law, has led to a general increase in utilization of services; or that industry practices generally lead to the provision of unnecessary services…

The Krueger report explains that the root cause of this problem is decades of stimulus spending and economic stagnation.

Puerto Rico's debt crisis did not happen overnight. It has been years in the making.

As the Governor has said, debt is not payable and must be restructured.

before we vote on whether to proceed to H.R. 36, I want to respond to a couple of arguments made by a Democratic Senator yesterday. First, that Democratic Senator quoted Hal Lawrence of the American Congress of Obstetricians and…

the Pope's visit this week to our Nation's Capital reminds us all of how very important it is to show compassion and concern for the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Unborn children who fall into this category are entitled to the…