Are you willing to work on a bipartisan basis so that we can move these nominees as expeditiously as possible without getting into the weeds on someone that many of us suspect might be a saboteur of the Bank?

I come to the floor this afternoon to honor the incredible men and women of our Nation's law enforcement agencies. Each year, peace officers from all over the country and from countries all over the world come to Washington, DC, to…

We are struggling every day in Indian Country in this country with poor schools, poor health care, poor law enforcement, and lack of housing.

We cannot afford to wait six years to address the issues that GAO has set forth.

You have an obligation not only to the taxpayers and people of this country. You have a treaty obligation to meet these standards under treaty obligations.

It is a matter, in some cases, of life and death.

It is critically important to remember that... there may come a time when you are asked to do something that is not in the interest of the American people.

I think the recent examples of disclosing classified information to foes is not a step in the right direction.

We cannot have rural development without housing. We cannot have economic development without housing.

I am over my time, Mr. Watt. I am sure we will have more conversations about this in the future.

We need advice. We need information. And we are going to have a choice here.

I think Putin understands that the greatest vulnerability we have internally in this country is hyper-partisanship.