Will you commit to continue to work with this Committee to provide additional information and additional documents as needed?

We have a President who remains unwilling to acknowledge the threat that Russia poses to our democracy.

What is clear, however, is that this playbook offers a tremendous bang for the disinformation buck.

If we could put up the chart here, this is another example of how people are kind of lured in.

This is about national security. This is about corporate responsibility, and this is about the deliberative and multifaceted manipulation of the American people by agents of a hostile foreign power.

I would strongly urge you to please take a look at that legislation.

I look forward to supporting your nomination and ensuring its consideration without delay.

I'm hopeful that this bill will pass the Senate and ultimately be signed into law, as it provides the Department and the intelligence community the needed tools and authorities.

I can assure you that this committee will faithfully follow its charter and conduct vigorous and real-time oversight over the intelligence community, its operations and its activities.

I still do believe that the current status of the GSEs being in conservatorship is not the long-term solution.

Access to housing in this country--and I know you all share this view that it is extraordinarily important.

The efficiency of FHA is seriously undermined by the lack of having a modern IT system.

I am pleased to yield to my friend, the Senator from Texas, for a question as long as I still get a chance to finish my comments.

Listen, we want to keep this -- the number of individuals that the members have yet to see in terms of some of the principles that you and your colleagues have reported on, the members of the committee have not even had a chance to talk to…

I rise to speak in favor of my amendment to strike language in this budget resolution that would exempt the $1.5 trillion tax reconciliation instructions from Senate rules that are meant to prevent this body from dramatically increasing…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To strike the Senate pay-as-you-go exemption for tax cut…

let me thank my friend, the Senator from Delaware, for his kind comments. More importantly, I thank him for his good work that he brings to the issue of fiscal responsibility. Before he served here in the Senate, he served as the head of…

I ask unanimous consent, since I had a few moments and I was trying to give courtesy to answer my colleague, for an additional 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

I thank the Senator from Texas for his comment. Let me say where I might agree with some of Senator Cornyn's principles. I believe that we need a more simplified Tax Code. I believe that a goal of our Tax Code ought to put American…

Five minutes to answer the Senator's question and to make my very short statement.

Your job--and we talked about, again, this in our conversation--is to be, I think, hard-hitting, to find problems, uncover abuses and recommend fixes.

These IG functions are even more important in an organization like the CIA, which by necessity does not operate in the public.

I wish to express my hope that we'll soon receive from the President a nominee for the position of the IG for the overall intelligence community.

But how do you go about improving? You said you would look at outside experts.

I believe that the job of the Inspector General is critical to the effective operation of any agency.