Dan Coats

Providing the security is the number-one priority, but finding the funds to do so--maybe the chairman has a better idea.

It will require bipartisanship, but it can be done because there does seem to be a consensus that it needs to be done.

The statistics are pretty compelling, particularly as it impacts on small business.

We need a better way to sift through regulations both proposed and existing; transparently identify their true costs.

In many cases, this cost amounts to the difference between a small business hiring or not hiring additional employees.

Regulators published $112 billion in net regulatory cost in 2013 alone.

this is not easy for me to do, but I am going to do it in good grace here. I congratulate my colleague from Connecticut on The University of Connecticut's victory over the University of Notre Dame last night. He watched in joy and…

There has not been any scientific proof that there is any kind of a major environmental issue here with this anymore as has been alleged for many years.

Clearly this enormous increase in the production of crude oil is of benefit to the United States, and it is a benefit to the world, and it has all kinds of implications for us economically, domestically, as well as in foreign policy.

I come to the floor today to discuss the vote that is about to occur on the unemployment benefits extension act. I have repeatedly said that the Senate should have a full and open debate on this important issue and that debate should…

I would like to discuss the legislation currently under consideration. But I want to begin by briefly discussing how we arrived at this point. In January, I was one of a few on our side of the aisle who voted to begin debate on the bill to…

So just to make the record clear, anything related to a safety issue will be shared with the public and with Congress?

I would suggest to the Chair that perhaps a follow-up subcommittee hearing potentially involve those who held the leadership in the key positions at GM during the timeframe that we are looking at here.

The more you buy, the more you build, the cheaper they are.

Every year we sort of have a shrinking percentage of the overall budget, because of our runaway mandatory spending.

when the Senate last met, I introduced, together with Senator Durbin, a resolution regarding our response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That resolution, which received unanimous support in the Senate, called for a number of specific…

I don't think they were invited in there, would have been invited in there, had we known that they were going to breach their responsibility in terms of invading a neighbor.

Keeping Iran from producing a nuclear weapon is far different than having the capability of doing that.

Senator Durbin and I yesterday coauthored a Senate resolution relative to some sanctions, really not sanctions so much as providing some isolation.

The United States, led in many ways by the Senate--you were a member there at the time--went through the careful and, I think, painstaking process of both diplomacy and tough sanctions.

Clearly it is a top priority, and we ought to make sure that it is adequately funded.

I think that surveillance is a very important way of staying one step ahead of the trends that may emerge.

We have to find a way to do those things better, more efficiently and in a cost-effective way.

Cyber has moved to the top of the list as a threat to America.

I ask for the yeas and nays. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the question is on the passage of the bill. The yeas and nays are ordered…