I first want to make a single declarative sentence: There is no one in this body who is for open borders. One of the most troublesome aspects of this debate that has been framed, particularly by this administration, is that you are either…

The bill that passed has $1.6 billion. The one that passed last year had $1.3 billion. You know, that's a lot of money and does specify a whole series of things but, again, part of the burden on the administration is to come forward and…

I think there is a way out by saying, OK, park rangers have nothing to do with the wall. Food stamps have nothing to do with the wall. Let's fund those.

If the precedent is established that the president can hold the Congress and the government hostage to get some policy that he wants, then I don't know where it stops.

Holding the government hostage is exactly what this is, is not, shouldn't be in the toolkit.

We can only interdict one-fourth, 25 percent, of the boatloads of drugs that we know are coming by water from Latin America because of lack of resources.

I've never heard anybody say that. I've never heard anybody advocate it. Everybody on both sides of the aisle is for border security.

No, I think there's a problem, not a crisis.

My only final comment is to suggest a friendly amendment as to how to allocate these funds. I suggest alphabetically, and the fact that Acadia is in Maine is a mere coincidence. Seriously, I think my two colleagues have made the case…

First, Mr. President, I thank the gentleman from Ohio for bringing forth this proposal that makes so much sense and that, as he points out, has bipartisan support. In fact, I don't know if I have ever heard the Senator make so much sense…

before coming here, I used to teach a course at the college level on leadership. At the time, what we tried to do was establish, over the term of a semester, the qualities of good leadership. One of them was that in any complex job, any…

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I think it's inappropriate for the President to be dangling pardons in front of Manafort and calling Michael Cohen names and complimenting Michael Flynn.

I think there are going to be a number of investigations in the House and there may be some rules under which getting the tax returns are appropriate.

The judge explicitly gave him an opportunity to withdraw his plea, and in effect argue that he was ambushed or perjury trap or something like that, he did not do so.

I hope the Navy is thinking about workforce development because that is not going to happen on its own.

You bring up an interesting concept.

Do you feel that we are headed toward a time when there can be a clean audit?

Talking about the New River Gorge, which Senator Capito so ably presented, one of the things she mentioned was traditional hunting and fishing as being non-negotiable.

I think this is a really big deal, and it is very important in terms of budgetary priorities.

It strikes me that both in aircraft and ship maintenance, we do have a lot to learn from the private sector.

So in order to support this bill, there would have to be a line drawing in terms of what would be preserve and what would be park, is that correct?

I think one of the stories, if you will, out of the Mueller investigation, is the nonstory. The fact that they've done a really pretty amazing job in this town of keeping, you know, very quiet and deliberate about what they're doing.

I can't give you a number, but I can tell you that that was one of the things our committee decided to do if there were references that were appropriate to the special counsel, we were going to make them and have done so.

I do think it raises a lot of questions, and we understand that General Flynn spent many, many hours, I think something like 19 meetings -- with the special counsel's team, and so it raises questions that he, obviously, had a lot to say.