the number one priority for any Senator from North Dakota is the passage of a 5-year farm bill. When I was campaigning across North Dakota, I reminded my constituents that in spite of this wonderful energy renaissance we have going on in…

thank you so much for this opportunity to stand and support a bill that has taken a long time to get to the floor of the U.S. Senate. I remember back when Members such as Senator Mary Landrieu stood and sounded the alarm--sounded the alarm…

I think there is a great deal of opportunity, and as we know, when we look at employment, we all give lip service to small business.

I know it might be hard to imagine, but those places in North Dakota we do not consider rural.

I just want to ask you how amenable is the Bank to taking a look at reversing some of the policies that they have made on coal-fired electricity.

the access to affordable energy is a key component to building the middle class.

I rise today with strong concerns over how the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014, H.R. 3304, approaches the critical issue of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, ISR, and specifically the approach to the Global Hawk…

I think there is a lot of people, certainly in this room, who have expressed dissatisfaction with the agreement.

The devil is in the details in any negotiation.

we are here today to talk about something that is critically important to very many middle-class families who enjoy home ownership across the country, and business ownership, and it is the truly bipartisan Homeowner Flood Insurance…

There is a lot of discussion about the internal politics of Iran and whether, in fact, there is a mature enough diplomatic situation in Iran.

this is a tough issue. It is a tough issue because good people don't agree. Good people don't see the issue the same way. But we cannot lose sight of the fact that so many of the reforms we will be voting on to guarantee a safe haven, to…