I rise today to fix a troubling loophole in our earmark rules. Earmarks are something I strongly oppose. I believe they breed corruption, overspending, waste, and abuse. There has been bipartisan concern about the earmarking process for…

I move to proceed to Calendar No. 448, S. Con. Res. 43. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S3527, July 20, 2022, first column, the following appears: Mr. BRAUN. I move to proceed to Calendar No. 448, S…

I come to the floor this evening--I have been talking about this subject for nearly the 3\1/2\ years I have been a Senator. And I will tell you why I think it is important. We have grown the Federal Government to a level where all the…

That seemed like the ultimate heavy hand of Government.

I agree with you that local prerogative should come into play.

reserving the right to object, it has come to my attention recently on a couple of the nominees whom the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is entertaining--this body has been rife with allegations of abuse of power and a…

I think the data has shown that this has ravaged, in a disproportionate way, in the elderly with co-morbidities.

this is one of the more enjoyable things of being a Senator, especially when I have some friends in from Southern Indiana up in the Gallery to see what we do here. I rise today to offer a resolution expressing support for the Pledge of…

You have got anywhere from huge corporations that, to me, shoulder the biggest responsibility, and where unions definitely come into play.

I don't think you should game the system by issuing 1099s when, technically, that individual is an employee.

We have got to look at the reality of what we can take in each year.

That will take us into Chapter 11 someday, and even this place is not immune to that.

We have got to get back to budgets, we have got to do it through regular order.

I think it is a cornerstone of how things work.

The money follows the child, not the building, not the district.

I believe there should be choice along the way.

I have been a proponent since I have been here because I come from the realm of full competition, price transparency, markets that have hundreds of players in them.

I think that just--I want to be on record that that is not a free market. That is an oligopoly, minimally, it is a monopoly, very nearly.

I think the key to that navigation is to pay attention to the data, and the science, not the political science.

If you extrapolate what we are doing into the future, all the programs that do have merit are in peril.

When you are not taking care of things in the private sector, you are going to look to government to do it.

I don't think we have done one in close to 10 years, and when we are structurally running $1.5 trillion deficits...

We have to address the fact that we are woefully short on supply of housing in this Nation.

What Senator Sanders is talking about in Medicare For All is because we have got a broken health care industry.

the President put out a blueprint on a budget 10 years out, that shows us actually growing our structural deficits, taking our debt from $30 trillion where it is currently, record high in our country's existence, to $45 trillion.