I find it tragic, the Administration's position on this issue.

The people of my State cannot even begin to understand the position of this Administration to support, not 50 percent, 90 percent retention basically, of revenues to interior States that do not experience land loss, sink-age.

I want to highlight the GOMESA Act that I was proud to be the lead sponsor with Senator Domenici.

I rise today to ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing the 9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association of the Buffalo Soldiers, who on July 22-28, 2013, will celebrate their 147th Anniversary Reunion in New Orleans, LA. The cavalry…

A number of us are going to insist that it be revenue neutral, that is, that it not be the situation where they do tax reform and at the end of the day small businesses say 'Oh, look, the Federal Government got another trillion dollars.'

I preach here all the time that the biggest problem that faces small business in America today is the Federal Government and the regulatory structure that it heaps on small businesses day after day after day.

I think our country should be leading the world in that.

Maybe startups should be completely free.

I have to warn you that there are people here in the Congress who do not look at this necessarily as an opportunity to help you, but rather to help themselves; that is, they want to do tax reform so that they can extricate more money out…

If you have your two things or three things you want to get on the record, get them.

They are entrepreneurial.

It is also a big disincentive for people who are thinking about starting a business because of that regulatory burden.

if you want to have a capitalist system, you need to have more capitalists.

I think that is kind of an interesting principle.

I have had any number of my constituents come up and ask me that.

my friend, Mrs. Cynthia M.A. Butler McIntyre, will be retiring her role as the national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, this year. She has served as president since July 2008, and has been a great asset to the organization…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will meet on July 17, 2013, at 3 p.m. in room 428A Russell Senate Office building to hold a roundtable entitled ``Small Business Tax Reform: Making the Tax…

let me begin by thanking the majority leader for his extraordinary leadership on this bill--and both sides, it has been a very tough negotiation. The Gang of 8--Senator Flake, Senator Bennet, Senator Rubio, Senator Menendez, Senator…

I appreciate both leaders for giving some time for this. Several of us have been working all week on a package of amendments that were bipartisan and cleared by both Senator Grassley's and Senator Hatch's staff. We appreciate their work so…

The list of amendments that will be circulated has Democratic and Republican sponsors that have been cleared by Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy. They will work with their individual Members to see if the list can be cleared. There will…

I--as well as many colleagues--have gotten to the point where we would like to try to get back to a place where after all the fighting is over, all the yelling is done, all the posturing is done, all the message amendments are done, we…

So $30 billion on the land border, and it could be something between 30 and 46 and those numbers keep changing. But it is a lot of money. Senator Nelson's amendment says that at least $1 billion of that money be spent on maritime border…

I thank Senator Grassley for those comments. I will continue to work with him in good faith on this list. I realize not all of these amendments are under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee, so that is why we have been working with…

I come to the floor this morning to talk to an issue I have been speaking about for a couple of days. I most certainly can appreciate the frustration of the Senator from Alabama and the Senator from Iowa. The Senator from Alabama has been…

I thank the Senator from Arizona, and I will show more patience. Everyone on the floor is showing a lot of patience with this very complicated bill, but I have asked privately and I will ask publicly for the process of…