Free speech is not always free. It gets downright cumbersome when Senators have you on their enemies lists.

There are a lot of politicians in Washington who love empty symbolic votes. The House has voted what, 39, 40, 41 times--I cannot keep track--to repeal Obamacare? Those votes were by and large empty, symbolic votes that had zero chance of…

I wish to thank the Senator from Utah for his leadership on this issue. I am proud to stand with Senator Lee, Senator Rubio, and with so many others. I can tell my colleagues that in the State of Texas, Texans overwhelmingly understand…

I do indeed share those thoughts and feelings and the obligation we owe to our constituents to honor our word and put action behind our words. I would ask the Senator from Utah if he would yield for a series of three short questions?

I think that I do not want the public to take our word for it always, and I think there is a balance here, and transparency is part of that balance.

My third brief question is, For those in this body who have campaigned at home, who have told their constituents they are opposed to ObamaCare, on January 1 the exchanges go up and running, the subsidies begin. And the history of the…

I am proud to say that I am introducing my bill with the support of Chairman Leahy, Senator Blumenthal, and a number of other Senators.

The first question is, There has been much talk of a shutdown. Am I correct that we do not have to hypothesize what a shutdown would look like, that we, in fact, saw that in 1995 with two temporary, partial shutdowns that occurred when…

A second question I would ask is this: This week we saw the rather stunning news that the IRS employees union--the men and women at the IRS charged with enforcing ObamaCare are asking not to be made subject to ObamaCare. Indeed, the union…

I do not believe the facts justify that rosy assessment.

It seems to me this is an issue that inspires a great deal of passion, a great deal of emotion.

28 percent of former Guantanamo detainees re-engaged in terrorism.