earlier today I met with families from Newtown, CT, to discuss the legislation we are currently debating. It is obviously very emotional and not an easy meeting to have, but it is a very necessary meeting to have. When there are parents of…

We have a constitutional responsibility of oversight. We have passed the law. You do not forget about it.

Mr. Pryor, what agenda will you bring to the Commission, and what do you hope to accomplish as a result of your service on the Commission?

Thank you. Now to Ms. Dorsey.

In these cases, the court was willing to forge ahead to create a just outcome with regard to the usual decisional restraints.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. CMS Financial Information

it is said that information is the most valuable commodity. In politics you probably know that information is power. The bigger government gets, the more valuable government information becomes to financial markets. This is especially true…

When information leaks from the administration that has the ability to cause significant market movement, it is wrong and quite possibly illegal.

I assume that that gives you the authority that your investigation needs to compel the production of information within CMS.

I obviously do not believe that you can get the folks at HHS or OMB or the White House without some help, so I am going to pursue this.

I think you would make a fine Administrator, and I want to be able to support your confirmation.

this amendment strikes a $975 billion tax increase. This amendment in turn sets up a deficit-neutral reserve fund that will allow the Finance Committee to reform corporate and individual taxes in a revenue-neutral way. The President got…

I rise to speak about amendment No. 156. I am offering this amendment to the majority budget to ensure that tax reform is revenue neutral and the money available to do tax reform is not used for spending, as the underlying resolution…

I think I can yield myself 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa is recognized.

Absolutely. And based upon the experience we have had of actually voting on those issues in the past--or the fact that I stated how the President put certain things in his budget of February 2012, and none of those ideas have ever been…

Last week Mr. Morton said they released 10 level 1 offenders. These are people convicted of violent crimes. They are repeat drunk drivers, as an example. Yesterday he said they only released eight, but he also said they were trying to…

over the 10 years that I was chairman or ranking member of the Finance Committee, I worked with several Budget Committee chairmen. They were Senator Domenici, Senator Nickles, Senator Gregg, Senator Conrad. We did not always agree on every…

at an appropriate time I will ask for some consideration of an amendment of mine, amendment No. 6. My amendment would hold the Obama administration accountable for its recent decision to release more than 2,000 undocumented immigrants from…

I rise to pay tribute to the life of SSG Steven Blass, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan while serving his country. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Tricia, his young son Hayden, his parents, Randy and Carol, and…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). Without objection, it is so ordered.

I say to Senator Sessions, the distinguished ranking member, I am going to try to show him and other Members of the Senate that the numbers that they think they can raise revenue from, to $1 trillion, are not going to work. We can take…

If private individuals and commercial companies are allowed to use drones... are there limitations on whether law enforcement can obtain those videos absent a warrant?

The potential benefit to drone technology is limited only by the imagination, but we must always remember that the power of new technology creates greater responsibility to respect the privacy of our citizens.

I do not think I would have ever been comfortable with this.

But, in 3 to 5 years, when you might be called back here to testify during an evaluation phase, are you comfortable that you will be able to justify that those $10 billion were spent in truly separable projects, because that is going to be…