I think we are about ready to wrap up.

It is modern-day slavery.

It seems to me that this is a mixed message.

Exactly right, but no one believed him.

I just want to say, in my opinion that is a big win for America, and a big win for the United States Senate.

I am a strong proponent of congressional review and us having a say, especially when it is going to affect, in a significant way, foreign policy.

I think us taking action here could have a broader impact than just this one particular circumstance of payments to prisoners and terrorists.

What the Palestinian Authority is doing is financing terrorism. That must end.

I am convinced that we will take action, and that we will come together on legislation.

I would point out, as the chairman and I worked very hard on the Russian sanctions bill that passed overwhelmingly on the floor of the Senate, that bill is more prescriptive than we have been in the past on how we desire sanctions to be…

I think we are going to have to take a very similar approach as we deal with the Taylor Force law.

The Palestinian system of prisoner and terrorist payment must end--must end. It is an incitement to violence.

The time has come, Mr. Chairman, where we are going to have to be much more prescriptive.

The TIFIA program is very important in all States, and Maryland has utilized it for some very important programs.

I take this time to share with my colleagues the experiences I had in the State of Maryland during our most recent work period and shortly before that, when I took the opportunity to meet with different groups with regard to the healthcare…

I think this is extremely dangerous to our national security, and I think it is going to be extremely costly to the taxpayers of this country.

Without that, it would be difficult to see the project move in the manner that we hope that it will.

I want to get your thoughts. Senator Cochran and I have worked long and hard to preserve transportation alternative programs.

So here is how we need you to help us.

Senator McConnell is correct, and that we need to make sure that the individual market is a stronger market than it is today.

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