Rand Paul

I would say it has not happened, it has just been getting worse and worse and worse.

Let us say within a month we will get them to the floor and we will vote on them.

I think if we truly care about our country, if we care about joblessness, if we care about unemployment, if we wanted to stimulate the economy, we should incorporate the ideas we have heard today.

I would encourage the Chairman, who is famous for being independent and respected for working with both sides of the aisle, to let us do something.

I voted against this short-term continuing resolution for the same reason I voted against the last one and the one before that--because it does not set us on a path to fixing the spending and debt problems our country is facing. As I have…

In accordance with rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in writing that it is my intention to move to suspend Rule XIV, paragraphs 3 and 4 for the purpose of moving to proceed to S. 768, a bill to provide for…

I know the word ``hypocritical'' is a strong word. I don't use it lightly. But the words we are using in this resolution that we will get a chance to vote on are the words from the President. The President said: The President does not have…

It's been greatly on decline over the last 30 years.

Every regulation doesn't save lives. And, there is a point or a balancing act between when a regulation becomes burdensome enough that our energy production is stifled.

This is going into effect May 2, and we'd really like to see the studies as to how you're determining the cost and how you're determining whether or not this is a health problem that needs a change in the Respirable Dust Rule.

The prevalence of black lung has been reduced from 33 percent to 3 percent. I think we've been doing a good job.

Can you provide the information to my office for the health reports and the studies that went into why we need to change the Respirable Dust Rule?

I think we need to try to continue to do what we can to isolate and target who could attack us.

I was just thinking more of people who have been to Yemen three times and Somalia twice and they are not on your watch list, but you might want to spend a little more time with them.

If you fly from Islamabad into Kennedy Airport and then you are going to fly on to Chicago, do you go back through any screening or are you just relying on what happened in Islamabad?

Does the TSA examine flight manifests?

We are made to feel like criminals and we do not want to be made to feel like criminals when we fly on a plane.

And with regard to setting up a frequent traveler program, you say there are a couple of airports we are doing it in now?

What reason do we have to be admitting so many, and is the policy of the Administration to continue to admit so many, and is it not a danger to our country and overwhelming us with numbers of folks who have to be screened and apparently…

I think we should change that.

I would just encourage that we continue to expand this, that it is long overdue.

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

I can kind of understand that after we lost the war in Vietnam, the communists took over and people who sided with us or fought with us would be executed.

I mean, it is really doing police work.

That is a real problem. I mean, we got lucky because of the informant, but I guess that is the real problem.