new data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that the crisis at the border isn't going away even if that may be the wish of the Biden administration. In the last year, Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than…

the crisis at our southern border continues to break records. For the first time ever, the United States has encountered more than 2 million migrants at our southern border in a single fiscal year, and that doesn't even include data for…

for each of the past 61 years straight, the Senate has passed the National Defense Authorization Act. I still remember the Presiding Officer's predecessor, John McCain, who used to rail on the Senate to get this done and making the very…

I ask unanimous consent to print my bill for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to modify requirements under that act relating to exemptions. S. 4901 Be it…

when Attorney General Garland went through the confirmation process for his current job as Attorney General of the United States, he made a solemn pledge to keep politics out of the Justice Department. I, for one, was encouraged by his…

Well, like Senator Graham, I’m proudly pro-life, but I think after the Supreme Court has ruled in the Dobbs case, that this issue is best decided on a state-by-state basis and that decision is not going to be made by federal legislators…

the 117th Congress is drawing to a close, and there is a lot we need to do before the end of the year when the 117th Congress is no more. At the top of that list, of course, are must-pass bills. In the next couple of weeks, the Senate is…

yesterday, new data showed what Texans have known and felt for months: that inflation simply is not letting up. Last month, prices were up 8.3 percent from a year ago. Economist Larry Summers, a well-known former president of Harvard…

I ask unanimous consent to print my bill for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill requires a study of the programs, acquisitions, and budget of the Department of Defense. There being no objection, the text of the bill was…

there are a lot of important things that we do here in the U.S. Senate, hopefully, every day; certainly, every week, month, and over the year. But there are a couple of pieces of legislation which are literally must-pass pieces of…

I ask unanimous consent to print my bill for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use amounts available to the Department of Defense for operation and maintenance to remove munitions and…

I ask unanimous consent to print my bill for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill provides for emergency acquisition authority in the event of armed attack against a U.S. ally or partner by a foreign adversary of the United…