Our policy should be actually to discourage as much as we can unaccompanied children coming to our border by whatever means necessary in order to keep them united with their families that they are leaving.

Will the gentleman yield for a question? Mr. McHENRY. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland.

I object. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard. ____________________

My reading of the bill is not furloughed employees. It is anyone affected. It has a very broad definition. Without putting any guardrails on it, one could argue that every American was probably affected in some way. Is that true? Is my…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding to me, obviously, on the eve of the March for Life. Madam Speaker, let me follow up with what my cochairman has said. It has been 46 years since Roe v. Wade, a generation and a half. There…

We are now 26 days into the longest government shutdown in American history, and 800,000 workers--800,000 Americans--are going without pay. Half of them are working anyway. Let's be very clear about how we got into this mess. The Senate…

I thank my friend Senator Booker. It is truly an honor to be on the floor of the Senate with my colleague and friend proposing this legislation. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged…

over 2 months ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to advance the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018, which I introduced proudly with Senators Booker and Scott. This is a historic piece of legislation that would…

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, and the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 3178), as amended, was passed, as…

I want to thank our colleagues for this incredibly important act of bipartisanship in the U.S. Congress. Thank you, Madam President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.

I further ask unanimous consent that the substitute amendment be agreed to and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 4168) in the nature…

I ask unanimous consent that Thomas Dotstry, a fellow in my office, be given floor privileges for the remainder of the 115th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

a key component of our democracy is access to the ballot. The Supreme Court acknowledged in Reynolds v. Sims that ``the right of suffrage is a fundamental matter in a free and democratic society. Especially since the right to exercise the…

I say to Senator Blumenthal, my response would be no. My response is no, and I will tell you why--because one of the most important qualities of a juror in our system of justice is that they have the ability to receive information without…

Senator Murray, you and I have talked about it. We all talked about it. Part of the pain of this process is a real concern that sexual assault victims and survivors may take away from this process that their stories will not be heard or…

I thank my colleagues from Washington and from Connecticut. I agree, we can find a better nominee, and I yield to the Senator from the great State of Virginia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.

given the serious and troubling allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, I am deeply disturbed that the Senate is moving forward with this nomination. When it was announced that the FBI could investigate these serious and credible…

I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my colleagues, the Senators from Washington and Connecticut. I also ask to be notified when we have used 45 minutes of the Democrats' time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

Today the House will pass H.R. 4913, renaming the Salisbury, Maryland Post Office, the ``Sgt. Maj. Wardell B. Turner Post Office Building'' In honor of Sgt. Maj. Wardell Turner who was killed in action in Afghanistan. Mr. Speaker, this…

our Nation mourns the loss of one of California's greatest civil rights leaders, whose nearly three decades in Congress and many more years in public service helped to shape the lives of countless individuals both at home and abroad. Ron…

I want to thank Senator Merkley for bringing us all together to address what is, I think, as my colleague Senator Hassan has said, one of the dark marks in the history of our country. I rise today to call attention to what has clearly been…

So we are not telling them you can't have fresh fruit and vegetables.

I mean, you know, the farmers in my district, they are happy that finally we are going to have a program in place that says that when their tax dollars go to pay for supplemental nutrition, which they all want it to go to, that actually we…

I mean, look, we want to help people when they are in need, but we have returned to full employment, or what we look at full employment.

I am going to ask--well, first, I want to thank the Department for, you know, the EQIP Program, the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, important in the State of Maryland.