I know the Senator from Kentucky tried to have this bill heard this week in a business meeting. I know the Senator knows I supported that effort to cause this bill to be marked up in the Foreign Relations Committee, which is where it…

One of the ways that Iran has destabilized the region has been through proxies that it funds. Let's face it. Until they became involved in Syria--as the Senator has talked about on the floor--through their proxy, Hezbollah, actually the…

I think, based on past behavior, that would be one's expectation. Again, we know there are facilities that are operating, and we haven't been able to get into those facilities. When you look at the facts, one of the things that is not even…

First of all, no one has taken a more important role in our foreign policy and security issues than the Senator from South Carolina. I thank him for that. I know on my last trip to Afghanistan, he was there serving his Reserve duty. I…

So when you think about the possibilities of their being able to create, as the Senator mentioned, a dirty bomb--which would create tremendous terror wherever it might have been implemented--that is something I think is frightening--more…

The Senator is exactly right. I was in the region this year, and there is tremendous concern about, obviously, Iran breaking out in this regard. Candidly, there are many conversations about ways for them to compensate for that because they…

I thank the Senator again for his tremendous contributions to this body and every foreign policy debate that we have. The President did seek congressional approval on the authorization of the use of military force in Syria. It was not…

I really do believe that the type of thing we are dealing with on the border now cries out for us, as a Congress, to deal with immigration reform.

this is a humanitarian crisis, and I think everybody here--all of--most of us have children, have--I mean, we--you know, to see what is happening with so many children from other countries, you know, it breaks our heart.

I was glad to join you in the Senate-passed immigration bill.

I will tell you this, it does not give me a lot of faith in the public officials who are dealing with this issue if they do not have some kind of gut instinct as to the number of people who are coming into this country that might actually…

I would like to join our distinguished leader Mitch McConnell in seconding the comments about the presentation the senior Senator from Tennessee made at the Howard Baker funeral. It is a great privilege for us to serve in this body. While…