This is not a zero sum game, even though Senator Schumer and I are having some good-natured competition.

I have introduced a bill called the Emergency Port of Entry Personnel and Infrastructure Funding Act of 2009.

When will CBP have all ports of entry equipped with license plate readers?

criminal offenders are our highest priority and this year I think you will see for the first time in the Agency's history, we will remove more criminal offenders than non-criminal offenders.

We know from experience at our ports, borders pose a national security risk.

I think we can all agree that broadband access has been a very positive thing in terms of our country and the world and our ability to communicate, our ability to do business.

I think as we approach this and we recognize this is a beginning of a process that is not really part of what Congress does, we legislate prospectively, not retroactively.

the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee has pointed out the Deputy Attorney General is a member of the national security team of the President, and the President has already used the authority under the Constitution to make a…

I say to my colleague from Ohio, what a welcome idea of refocusing on the No. 1 issue in America today, which is too many Americans out of work. Of course, we saw the growth numbers for the first quarter of this year: 1.8 percent--hardly…

I ask one further unanimous consent, and that would be that an article from Legal Newsline about a discovery dispute still delaying the resolution of the theft case against Motley Rice be printed in the Record. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro…

I have the floor. The Senator is out of order. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Texas has the floor.

I know there are a number of us who would like to speak on the upcoming cloture vote at noon on the McConnell nomination. I know Senator Grassley would; I presume the Senators from New York and Rhode Island would. I wonder if we could…