I think we are pretty good at winning--so long as we confirm our Assistant Secretaries and Ambassadors and give them a budget.

making the link that Ambassador Haley has made between human rights and international peace and security.

our Nation and our government were founded on a principle that can be summed up in three words: ``We the People,'' the first three words of our Constitution, the three words that our Founders wrote in supersized font so that no matter who…

I ask unanimous consent that that my intern, Kelsey Sherman, be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

The EPA is looking at the question of changing the automobile efficiency standards and also possibly taking away the waiver for the California standards. Would that take us in the wrong direction in terms of ozone production?

The existing trends do not drive us toward the goal being laid out by the EPA?

Is that also reducing the amount of ozone being generated?

Are we seeing a reduction in the ozone generated?

It was, I believe, May 20th when President Trump met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, and they have what was reported to be very friendly conversations.

the most important words in our Constitution are the first three words ``We the People,'' written in beautiful script and written many times larger than the rest of the document so that even if you are across the room, you know what this…

the public-private partnerships didn't work in a lot of situations, and sometimes were more expensive.

The President has said we will have two simple rules on the massive rebuilding effort: Buy America and Hire American.

sometimes that involves tolling that takes a tremendous amount more of our working Americans' pockets than if we just finance something directly.

If we don't stay on the cutting edge of innovation, it makes it much harder for our products to be sold around the world.

I would really encourage that.

I think for those of us who have seen the dumping of foreign steel in our market and the impact it has had on domestic production and the importance of steel in our national security, certainly there is a lot of support for making sure we…

there is a Chinese curse that reads: ``May you live in interesting times.'' To call the times that we find ourselves in right now ``interesting'' would be certainly an understatement. The fact is, we find ourselves and our country in a…

Shouldn't we spend every dollar that comes in on maintenance of our water infrastructure?

Thank you so much for coming out from Oregon to share this perspective. I really do appreciate the small port set aside, the 10 percent set aside, that has been so important to Oregon's coastal economy.

I compliment our colleague from Florida on his articulating this powerful vision for humankind, which is the ability to look into the night sky and ponder the mysteries of the universe, the mysteries of life, in the most complete way…

it looks as though we are at it again. Instead of fighting to make things even a little bit better for hard- working, middle-class Americans, Members of this body just want to make life harder for those hard-working, middle-class…

I think that the Senate has been providing key guidance in this area.

We are urging the international community to respond on behalf of the 80 million people across all these countries.

So I am going to just make one point here going back to the pilots before I turn this back over to the chair.

In an environment where there is potentially less foreign assistance money, there is going to be an additional incentive to find other partners to leverage money with.