Sam Brownback: “If we have time on our side, but I don't know if we have other colleagues wishing to speak. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…”

We cannot expect small, mid-size or even larger businesses to take on large numbers of additional employees when the government is raising the cost for employing them gainfully.

Promotion of international religious freedom is in our national interest, and it directly supports national security priorities including the defeat of ISIS and other violent extremist groups.

We need to put into place policies that will hopefully end that genocide.

I would also like to draw attention to an issue that I think is about the most important to our Nation. We recently won a major trade case against the European Union and their subsidization of Airbus. This is an effort by the European…