Would you agree with me when you rank the threats to the military, you would have to put Congress and the President in that mix if we do not fix sequestration?

Would you agree with me, General, that the Congress is going to shoot down more planes than any enemy that we can think of in the near term?

I want to associate myself with everything my friend said. Here is our dilemma. There are two forces inside of Syria that are a threat to us, the region, and the people in Syria-- ISIL, al-Nusra, and the other radical Sunni groups are…

All with families. Mr. McCAIN. All with families--barrel bombs, poison gas. By the way, there has been a recurrence of poison gas. Six million people are now refugees and it is putting an enormous strain on Europe. We can look around the…

Do you want to do revenue to fix it? I will do revenue. But what I am not going to do is keep playing this silly game.

I find that as repugnant as what the House is doing.

If sequestration goes into effect, are you going to lose marines?

I thank Congressman Jolly, and I thank Congressman Deutch very much for arranging this tonight. It means a lot. I feel the same anxiety just being as close to the larvae as others feel, and I might just ask that the gentleman keeps them in…

More than 250,000 people were without power. Ten-foot storm surges destroyed homes. Lives were lost. This is what my hometown and north Florida has experienced in the past week as a result of Hermine, the first hurricane to strike Florida…

I want to thank the senior Senator from Delaware for raising this important issue. I would be happy to work with him on this issue because, as my friend and colleague from Delaware knows, my State of South Carolina is already seeing…

I thank Mr. Murphy for yielding. I appreciate this opportunity of speaking for the same purpose I spoke to about an hour ago, but a different amendment. I would just like to say, living in north Florida, I have seen firsthand the…

As I previously said, the purpose of this is to strengthen the ban. And, again, I was on the beaches following the BP oil spill and saw the tar washing up on the shores. I am proud to represent many military installations in the State of…

I will just close by reminding my colleagues that this has been a longstanding, bipartisan consensus that, for military as well as economic reasons, should be strengthened, and we should not be drilling in the eastern Gulf. I urge my…

As the designee of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Jolly), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title)…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Florida will be postponed. Amendment No. 64 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa The Acting CHAIR…

I would like to recognize my colleagues, Mr. Jolly and Mr. Clawson, who are my good friends and cosponsors of this amendment. Second, I would also like to remind my colleagues that this amendment passed by voice during last year's debate…

in 2011, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, OLC, issued a legal opinion reversing 50 years of interpretation of the Wire Act. Lawyers there concluded the act does not ban gambling over the Internet, as long as the betting…

I also want to congratulate the people of Talkeetna. I wish I could go myself to the moose-dropping thing, and I want to see that before I die. Mr. President, I thank Senator Whitehouse for giving me this time. College World Series Mr…

If I may, just to wrap this up, 50 diplomats who served in the Mideast wrote an open letter to the world to say that we have let Assad get away with murder. Assad will be in power when Obama is gone. Russia and Iran have gone to Assad's…

I wish we were wrong too. The worst is yet to come. I hate to be saying this all the time, but as they are losing territory in Iraq, which they are, and they are being hurt some in Syria, which they are, they are becoming a lethal…

Isn't it kind of odd that we have not 4,500, we have over 5,000 troops. They are playing with the numbers again. I know this. There are over 5,000 troops. About 1,000 are off the books. They are there; they are just not being counted. This…

I wish to thank Senator Scott for his eloquent words on behalf of our State and the leadership he has provided since this horrible tragedy a year ago. What can I add? I will just remind people who might not remember why he did it that his…

I thank the Senator from Arizona. I want to put this issue and what we are trying to do in the context of what has happened in the last couple of days and what I think is going to happen in the future. No. 1, there is strong bipartisan…

I thank Congressman Scott for arranging this Special Order tonight. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate Farm Credit on their 100th anniversary. That is a significant anniversary. Earlier this year, when I visited all 14 counties in…

I thank the Senator. Here is the issue: To those who are a slave to these sequestration caps, to those who believe sequestration and this budget practice we are involved with is going to save the country, boy, I couldn't disagree with you…