Thank you, sir, and the Senator from New Mexico. Thank you for letting me get in. I know we don't have a lot of genuine open debates around here, so I want to be honest. This is a little bit awkward to delicately step onto the floor. I was…

I thank the Senator. I think we all know we need to do genuine health care reform sometime soon in the future because the reality is, the No. 1 driver of uninsurance in America is not preexisting medical conditions, although we all should…

I rise to speak about San Bernardino, about the decades-long fight that our free society faces, and about our dangerous unwillingness to tell the truth about the nature of this battle--about who our enemy is. We are at war. The American…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 15 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I am a fierce opponent of the Affordable Care Act, and I know that many of you in this room might be strong supporters of the ACA, but I don't think that is what your hearing is about today.

We are grateful that Senator Ben Sasse is here today to testify about the failure of the CO-OP program, and how it has negatively affected Nebraskans.

Congress needs to do better in oversight, not just in health care but in life in general.

The lack of transparency on this issue is harmful, and the Department of Health and Human Services owes the American public answers.

I rise to speak from the floor for the first time. I have never been in politics before, and I intentionally waited to speak here. I wish to talk about the historic purposes and uses of the Senate, about the decades-long decline of the…

I want to thank my friend and colleague Senator Scott for his leadership in protecting many Americans and small businesses from more needless suffering under ObamaCare. While I am glad for this outcome, a piecemeal approach to this…

as many of my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, have noted, today's vote on the President's deal with Iran is one of significant consequence. The American people deserve an up- or-down vote on the deal itself. I spent the day sitting…

If not, calling these mere 'manuals' is inaccurate.

I think one of the reasons we care about this is because in March 2014's breach, we have been told that blueprints to the main frame were all that were stolen.

DHS was created in large part to be the Nation's first line of defense against domestic terror attacks, and obviously nuclear weapons are our greatest threat.

What would give you comfort----

I think that Senator Booker asked a lot of great questions about the relative threats between Northern and Southern Border.

When you travel across our State, people actually believe in a Madisonian system of checks and balances.

addressing the 'Waters of the U.S.' Rule as it relates to producers across the country and rural life across our country is not only entirely appropriate, but it is an urgent necessity.

We need a government that is more self-consciously self-limiting because it believes in the Federalism that many of you have advocated more.

Issues concerning the expansion EPA's jurisdiction over additional waters in the United States are absolutely critical to Nebraskans.

we have to stop talking about only two groups, the pragmatists and the hard-liners.

I look forward to working with Senator Menendez, Chairman Shelby, and other Members of this Committee to build a bipartisan veto-proof majority to enact the Kirk-Menendez Iran legislation to decisively end Iran's nuclear threat once and…

we are negotiating with a party that does not actually have the power to conclude any kind of deal that we would actually want.

Zarif represents the Iranian regime. And, Zarif is a very good negotiator.

I wish the Obama administration luck in their strategy of playing out these talks for the next 2 years.