Thank you, Mr. President. I wish to spend a few minutes discussing the bill that is before us. Having been a manufacturing manager for 10 years, producing products that came through the medical device industry, and having dealt with the…

I support the goals of this legislation and believe slavery, in any form, is morally reprehensible. Sex trafficking is a global epidemic, and we should endeavor to eliminate this industry, especially due to its effects on minors who are…

the Department may have leaked the proposed regulations to parties supporting the Administration's position and investors who stand to benefit from the failure of the proprietary school sector.

I am simply amazed that, when we are borrowing $4.2 billion a day from our grandkids--that is what we are borrowing, $4.2 billion a day--we are going to run a $1.4 trillion deficit, and we have a unanimous consent request to move to things…

I wish to spend a few minutes talking about where we are. There is no question the chairman of the Appropriations Committee has finished his bills, and they have not come up. But the quality of the work doesn't meet with the depth of the…

reserving the right to object, I will not object if the Senator would kindly amend her request to include a substitute amendment with a Barrasso proposal to establish a National Commission on Outer Continental Shelf Oilspill prevention…

Today, I, along with Senators LeMieux, DeMint, and Inhofe, am introducing the FAST Act. What the FAST Act does is attack the $100 billion worth of waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP. The status quo in Medicaid and Medicare is…

I think the importance of today's hearing is not just to have a hearing, but how do we get out of this mess.

With the budget situations that we have, the last place we want to skimp is in defending this country.

The threats our Nation faces today are greater than any time in my lifetime.

again, if I truly felt this bill was going to solve those problems, I would be out here supporting it. I do not think so. We have an inherent disagreement. The Senator from Illinois can file a cloture motion any time he wants to proceed to…

If this bill is that important, and the majority whip says we will fund it if we can find the money, rather than saying we are going to fund this because this is a priority--and he has the power to make sure that gets done. Don't let…

I think we ought to fix the real problems. By fixing the symptoms, we delay the time in which we fix the real problems.

what is unfair in this country is the fact that we label bills to fix things and fix a lot of the symptoms, but we do not fix the underlying problem. We are going to spend several hundred million dollars when the bill ultimately goes…

The earlier statements of this will solve the problem, but yet we are not going to find the money. It should be 100 percent that we are going to find the money to do this.

I appreciate the Senator's offer, but I cannot do that. I also want him to know that this bill is not going to solve the problem of that gentleman from Owasso, OK. This bill is not going to solve that situation because we are not fixing…

there is nobody in this country who doesn't want our food to be safe. There is no question, we all rely on the intent that the vast majority of food is safe in this country. There is no question that we have some problems with food safety…

Today I have introduced two separate bills, S. 3790 and S. 3791, intended to hold members of Congress and other Federal employees to the same tax rules Washington imposes on the rest of America. In 2009, the Internal Revenue Service, IRS…

there has been much debate over the past year regarding ``secret holds'' stalling the consideration of presidential appointments or slowing expedited passage of legislation by the Senate. Lost in this discussion has been an issue that…

I am concerned about Ms. Stranch's nomination to the court of appeals because, like many recent judicial nominees, she embraces the use of foreign law by the courts, which is contradictory to the Constitution, the judicial oath, and the…

I have to admit to my colleagues that I have that fear now. And it is not an unfounded fear. You see, this year we will borrow almost $1.6 trillion from our grandchildren. We will borrow in excess of $4 billion a day-- money we don't have…

So Social Security had done a good job in advising them what their requirements were to advise back to Social Security when the beneficiary returned to work?

The fact that somebody was not prosecuted, that does not mean anything because the Department of Justice (DOJ) is not going to prosecute them if they fall under a certain dollar amount.

With a large deficit that is the fault of everybody in Congress the last 20 years, not one Administration or not one President and not one party, what are we going to do together to solve the problems to get our country out of the hole we…

We are going to clean this up. We are going to make it easier for Social Security to do its job.