Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I write to applaud you for holding a hearing on the sales tax fairness issue.”

I rise today to address this Chamber for possibly the last time as the senior Senator from the great State of Texas. I have to say it is an ironic note that if I had given my farewell address last week, there would have been so much joy in…

Al Qaeda is our common threat. ISIS is our common threat.

I am so touched by the comments of my colleague Senator Mikulski about myself and Olympia. I appreciate so much that she has singled us out because Senator Mikulski is a pioneer. She didn't build the pyramids, I might say, but it was…

let me just say that is not the only thing we could do. We could change the cost of living to the chained consumer price index. That would be OK. It wouldn't get us as much of a deficit reduction over 75 years--a chained CPI--but it would…