If we want to make Mr. Putin's day and strengthen his hand, we should reject the Keystone.

The Keystone XL pipeline is integral to U.S. and North American energy security.

Less than a week ago, four NATO allies from the eastern part of Europe--Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic--appealed to the Congress of the United States to protect them from Russian domination, not by requesting troops or…

canceling the Keystone XL pipeline does not mean that the oil from Canadian oil sands deposits will go undeveloped, sparing the world some modest increment of carbon emissions.

This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order.

I wish to pay tribute to the Girl Scouts as the organization celebrates Girl Scout Day. One hundred and two years ago, on March 12, 1912, Juliette ``Daisy'' Gordon Low founded the first chapter of the Girl Scouts of the United States of…

That is one universe which is clearly a problem.

And to me that is simply unacceptable.

I do not control when votes take place here in the Senate--at least not yet.

Well, I guess it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you are going to now perform the same functions that you gave a contracting company $50-some-odd million to do and you are going to do it in-house, that you are going…

Have you had any sit-downs with any of the State officials?

the law that appropriated the Sandy CDBG funding requires HUD to require grantees in contracting or procuring these funds to incorporate performance requirements and penalties into any such contracts or agreements.