Ebola, like all infectious diseases, knows no borders.

We need to be better prepared. We need to be ready to respond.

If we do not take care of our neighbors in West Africa, then we may see this deadly disease spread even faster across the world.

I wish to spend a few minutes talking about a bill that passed the House that has 37 bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate that came out of my committee. It is an important transparency item for the American taxpayers called the Taxpayers…

I can stick to 7 minutes. I will hear the gavel come down and I will quit. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the motion of the Senator from Oklahoma is accepted and the Senator is recognized.

First, I give praise to the chair and the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee for the cooperative nature of the committee this year in terms of inserting good government amendments into appropriations bills. It was a real…

I have an inquiry of the Chair. It was my understanding that I had 4 minutes remaining on our side and that Senator Rubio had time granted to him by the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Is that not correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER…

What I would simply do is ask unanimous consent that I have 7 minutes to make a statement. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

reserving the right to object, let me explain to the people watching what is happening here. We have a bill that everybody agrees to that is not going to get passed because everybody does not agree to another bill that is linked to it. We…

I am really worried about ICE. I mean, when ICE releases 600 criminals based on sequestration, nobody seems to know why.

China steals our intellectual property. They, as a nation-state, invade our computers all the time.

I just would say, Homeland Security's primary mission--one of their five core missions--the first mission is preventing terrorism and enhancing security, and that all fails if we do not have interior enforcement, and we do not right now.

With me, it is unexplainable, why EB-5 Regional Center programs have not been shut down already.

This bill makes a state out of the neutral land that houses the Federal Government.

More than half the witnesses are representation from the District of Columbia in their elected capacities, all with the same agenda.

Where is the Department of Justice (DOJ)?

I became a practicing physician over 30 years ago. I delivered well in excess of 4,000 babies. And right now in my Senate career and where the Senate is, I feel as if I am the father in the waiting room. I keep wondering when we are going…

I ask that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Lamest Lameduck Session

You have to take, in fact, the exhortation of various members of ISIL to come across our Southern border.

a standing military force with an overgrown executive will not long be a safe companion to liberty.

There is no role for the Federal Government in the local and State police forces in our country.

this is my 10th year in the Senate. Every time we come to a close of the session for a summer break or for a holiday break all of a sudden we start hearing all these unanimous consent requests--they come to the Senate. For those of you who…

reserving the right to object, would the Senator from Nevada, the majority leader, consider an amendment that would modify his request that would provide an offset for this bill? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the majority leader agree to…

Reserving the right to object---- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.

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