Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to temporarily set aside the pending amendment so that I may call up my amendment No. 1320 which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the…

As you know well, in any investigation that is in a highly politicized climate, that involves potentially corruption and political interference from the White House, the investigation is a perilous endeavor and an endeavor of significant…

President Obama needs to tell the truth. When Richard Nixon tried to use the IRS to target his political enemies it was wrong, and when the Obama administration does it, it's still wrong.

You have spent many decades in public service focused on law enforcement, and indeed, I recall when we were working together at the Department of Justice, almost every day in the morning at staff meeting, the question you would ask was…

Well, I would certainly urge the FBI not to narrowly circumscribe the scope, because the last time there was an instance of an administration trying to use the IRS to target political enemies, it was the Nixon administration, and it led to…

I want to echo some of the concerns that Senator Sessions raised about the groups that we know were targeted by the IRS that are reporting that they have yet to be contacted or interviewed by the FBI.

the FBI was aware of that, and yet we failed to stop that terrorist attack.

I am concerned that this administration's priorities in the war on terror have been misallocated;

we had considerable evidence with the Tsarnaev brothers of their affiliation with radical Islamic views, their advocacy of those views.

I would note, as you and I visited privately, this is the one issue that, in my opinion, has the potential to derail your nomination.

I asked each of those two nominees if they would commit... to identifying at least three existing Federal regulations that should be modified or repealed because they're impeding job creation.