Rand Paul

Currently, the invasive patdown searches are random and not based on risk assessment?

But it is not a totalitarian regime. We have a democracy over there. We are supposed to be proud of that government.

I think it is sort of an insult to our soldiers who are over there to say that it is unsafe.

So I would say, the sooner, the better, we can come home. This process says come home. Under the law, it says you should start bringing troops home within 30 days. This allows up to the end of the year after this would be passed. But this…

I thank the gentleman. The question we are facing today is, should we leave Afghanistan? I think the answer is very clear, and it's not complicated. Of course we should, as soon as we can. This suggests that we can leave by the end of the…

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up my amendment, No. 199. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. Paul]…

This amendment would cost $200 billion in spending. Earlier this morning we voted, nearly unanimously in this body, to cut 5 percent from our legislative budget. Similar to so much in Washington, it sounds good. I voted for it. But 5…

I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment follows: (Purpose: To cut $200,000,000,000 in spending in fiscal year 2011) At the…

This amendment, No. 199, would save taxpayers $200 billion. Recently you have seen some discussion, but I think the American taxpayers are actually baffled that there is not more discussion up here. We have proposals of a deficit from the…

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up my amendment No. 199. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

The important question being asked today with regards to foreign policy is should the United States impose a no-fly zone over Libya? There are leaders on both sides of the Capitol and leaders in both parties who are now advising this as…

If we do nothing, all the programs people are so fond of extolling and saying we need money for will be gone. So I implore the American public and those here to look at the problem and to say to Congress: You are not doing enough. You must…

Everything costs more to go back and retrofit the toilets that don't work.

I find it really an affront to the sensibility of the idea and notion of the free marketplace, of capitalism, of freedom of choice.

I find it really appalling and hypocritical.

You busy bodies always want to do something to tell us how we can live our lives better.

But you restrict our choices, correct?

I find it insulting that a lot of these products that you're going to make us buy. You won't let us buy what we want to buy.

The laws and the statutes that this Committee has championed provide an adequate basis, a fine basis.

You take away our choices. These things you want us to buy are often made in foreign countries.

we are discussing and debating two different alternatives--one from the other side of the aisle and one from our side--about what we should do about the budget deficit. We have a projected $1.65 trillion deficit in the next year. I think…

I find that all of the arguments for energy efficiency, you're exactly right. We should conserve energy.

You restrict my purchases. You don't care about my choices. You don't care about the consumer frankly.

we had an election a few months ago. In that election, the American people sent a message, a message that they were concerned about the debt, concerned about our kids and our grandkids and how this debt is going to be handed down to future…

I rise in support of this legislation. I think this is a good first step to reining in an out-of-control, unelected bureaucracy. I think the EPA has gone way beyond its mandated duty and is now at the point of stifling industry in our…