We cannot sit back and let this situation grow worse, as it does day by day.

This is a refugee crisis that we are seeing along our southern border.

This is not a complete plan, to me. What are missing are three things.

As a global humanitarian leader, the United States must respond to this crisis in a thoughtful and calculated manner thoroughly consistent with international refugee law and American principles of due process.

The best way to make this surge of children temporary is to pass an emergency supplemental and undertake a substantial deterrent strategy.

These children will be sent back.

We can't ignore the legitimate cries for help from refugee children.

If we want an extraordinary response to an extraordinary problem, why don't we consider using the National Guard?

Congress must immediately increase funding to ORR for fiscal year 2014 so that the influx of children at the border is not paid for by the refugees from Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Ukraine and elsewhere who have been generously…

More money may well be needed to deal with the consequences of this crisis, but it does not address the causes of the problem, and that is what is troubling to me.

I wish to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Town of Newport, ME. Newport was built with a spirit of determination and resiliency that still guides the community today, and this bicentennial is a time to celebrate the generations of…

This is why I am proud to be one of the original sponsors of the bipartisan International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA, S. 2307).

I wish to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Town of Hiram, ME. Known today as a gateway to the rugged and beautiful Western Maine Mountains, Hiram was built with a spirit of determination and resiliency that still guides the…

I believe the U.S. can and should be a leader in ending one of the biggest obstacles to not only U.S. national security but also global stability, development, prosperity, and human rights for all.

The International Violence Against Women Act--IVAWA--would ensure that the U.S. will continue to take a leadership role in combatting these problems.

I would be glad to engage in more debate later, but my colleague from Missouri has been waiting for a half hour to speak, and I think it would be courteous for him to be allowed to speak.

it appears I first need to say to my colleague and to those who are listening, there is no one in this body, in the trucking industry, among their customers who wants to see trucking accidents. All of us are committed to safer roads, and…

I am told the Senator from Washington State has a very brief statement she would like to make. I ask unanimous consent that she be allowed up to 3 minutes to make her statement before I reclaim the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I am pleased to join with Chairman Murray as we hope to begin floor consideration of the bipartisan fiscal year 2015 appropriations bill for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies. As usual, it has been a great…

the indiscriminate budget cuts of sequestration would result in the loss of a deployable aircraft carrier.

I really commend you for that. Aroostook County is a very large, very rural area, and we have a lot of seniors who are homebound or cannot travel long distances, and the fact that you are making such an effort to get services to them is…

$4 million for one Social Security office?

Did the Social Security Administration officials give any specific reasons why they could not accept some of those offers so that it could maintain the office at a reduced cost?

It is hard to understand why those particular offices would be closed.

I mean that sincerely.