I am a supporter of the Export-Import Bank, but I just want to press its importance and its relative size compared to other countries.

Mr. President, I have been monitoring the debate on my Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act and I keep hearing over and over from our friends on the other side of the aisle that if we keep giving the oil companies taxpayer money, they will do…

I would be happy to at the end of my remarks. What a heartwarming story of Robin Hood in reverse--taking from the American taxpayer to give to the rich. So congratulations, Big Oil, you got $2 billion extra in profits and we got 4 percent…

Madam President, I come to the floor to talk about what is the pending business before the floor, which is my legislation to end Big Oil subsidies in this country. Middle-class families are hurting, struggling to make ends meet. Yet today…

What Khamenei obsesses about is not U.S. hard power or U.S. military action, it is U.S. soft power and this idea of a soft or velvet revolution.

Khamenei was very cynical. He said that this is an iron fist with a velvet glove on it.

If he thinks, as you described it as behavior change, that we simply do not believe that for the world and our own national security interests and certainly in the region that having nuclear weapons in a country that has so much oil and…

if they, meaning the Iranians, have the intent, all the weapons in the world are not going to change that.

How can the Choice Neighborhoods serve as that platform?

Choice Neighborhoods ultimately will create jobs, having a ripple effect, attracting a variety of State, local, and private investment

It seems to me that that is a pretty sad reality. We should live in a Nation in which the happenstance of what zip code you live in is not the determinant of where you will end up in life.