I thank the Senator from South Carolina. Let me make a correction for the Record. I used the name al-Maliki. It is Ayman al-Zawahiri who is the current head of Al Qaeda, and that is whose name I meant to say. The point is this: If we…

I ask unanimous consent that 10 minutes be divided between myself and the senior Senator from Texas, Mr. Cornyn. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

Absolutely, I modify the request to reflect what the senior the Senator from Michigan said. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I think it is time for us to end this government shutdown. I said on the floor twice last week, and prior to that, that I didn't think the strategy of defunding ObamaCare was a strategy which would be successful. While I support repealing…

I want to first thank the Capitol Police for their bravery and for the important work they do in protecting all of us in the Capitol. Yesterday really showed how important they are. So I want to thank them for everything they did yesterday…

as I said before--and I said certainly as I came to this floor last week--governing by crisis is no way to run a government. We simply have to get our act together and work together to get the government funded again, to not lose the…

if the Senator from Iowa needs a couple of minutes to wrap up, I don't think I will take my whole 10 minutes so I would be happy to cede to him a couple of minutes.

I worry that there are so many GAO reports that sort of sit on a shelf of very good ideas about how we can implement efficiency, how we can find savings.

I rise today to talk about what is happening in my home State of New Hampshire as a result of ObamaCare. When I ran for the Senate in 2010, one of the reasons I decided to do so is because when I saw ObamaCare had been passed, I worried…

I want to thank the panel and, obviously, Senator Warner and Senator Blunt for holding this hearing.

What we don't want to do is create another situation where somehow this authority cherry-picks from what's already being done at the State level.

I guess I'm trying to understand, you know, what is the benefit for smaller states for an infrastructure bank.