So you are anticipating it may be a reality.

This is a critical issue for us, and I can appreciate you may not be fully up to speed on this particular one, but it is one that I think we need to pursue, and I would love to have that conversation.

Well, I would like a brief on what has happened since the President's statement.

I was disappointed to hear reports that National Security Advisor John Bolton is considering eliminating the White House Cyber Coordinator position.

If anything happens to that lock, within a matter of weeks the entire U.S. economy would go into recession.

We here, in my State of Ohio, have had epidemic levels of opioid addiction and overdoses and deaths.

Our legislation, that many Members of this Committee have strongly supported--I see Senator Hassan here, for instance.

competition is the lifeblood of the American economy. Competition is what makes capitalism work. It is competition that has established the United States as the world's dominant economic force for over a century. American competition is…

When the money we spend in Afghanistan is wasted, stolen, or ends up in the hands of the very enemies we seek to defeat, it undermines our policy, however well intended.

Taxpayers are growing weary. My constituents tell me we cannot afford to write a blank check.

I have made it no secret I think we should come home. I think we went in for the right reasons but we stayed too long.

I think we anger as many people as we help, and that also makes the taxpayers back home angry.

I think you could say that the fact that the United States has had considerable success in decimating al-Qaeda in the region is an out-and-out success.

We have an obligation to follow the money and ask the tough questions.

Waste fuels corruption, undermines the institutions in Afghanistan that we seek to empower, and breaks faith with the American taxpayer.

It is not our job to build countries, and, frankly, I think we do a poor job of it.

What do I tell the people of Flint, Michigan, who ask me, 'Why are my taxes paying for clean water in Kabul when I do not have clean water in my own home here in Flint?'

I have no sympathy for these people. They should remain and join efforts in rebuilding our own home.

as big as the amount that the Taliban is producing--it is a very large amount, but it is a relatively small fraction of the total amount that is produced in the country.

I rise to oppose the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the Secretary of State. I voted against confirming Mike Pompeo to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency because he lacked the experience and the qualifications…

We need to make a long-term commitment to our neighbors in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

We are denying these children the chance that they deserve, the chance our laws require we give them.

Expecting judges to just work faster... will not solve this problem. We need more judges.

We need this information, and we need it now.

today the Senate is considering a divisive nominee to sit on the Fifth Circuit Court. It completely baffles me that this administration continues to put forth nominees who are either clearly unqualified or intensely partisan and…