Marcelle and I met Arlene and Alan Alda on a trip with Senator Lloyd Bentsen. We had dinner together but I had a chance to talk to Alan Alda about our mutual Italian heritage. Later I told my Italian-American mother how nice a couple they…

somebody asked me a little while ago, shouldn't we be voting on the mishmash on Homeland Security that the House of Representatives sent over because of the immigration matters in it. I reminded them that the Senate in the last Congress…

5 years ago, the President signed into law the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act. This law has made improvements to our school lunch program by making healthy food choices a reality for students nationwide. One of the best ways to help…

If the Congress does not like what the President has done on immigration, pass an immigration bill.

I have a little trouble hearing criticisms of the President finally acting when the Congress would not.

The President's budget does call for increases that would support our law enforcement efforts in heroin as well as opioid addiction in general.

We spent hundreds of hours putting together an immigration bill in the U.S. Senate. It passed a couple of years ago.

I am also worried about the increase in heroin use and overdose. It has become a health crisis.

I think also we sometimes think we can do a one-size-fits-all. California did that with three strikes you are out, and it darn near bankrupted the State.

Wire intercepts have proven to be one of law enforcement's best tools to disrupt and dismantle criminal entities.

Excessive mandatory minimum sentences are wasting money that could be spent otherwise.

I am concerned about the potential impact on the privacy rights of innocent Americans.

I would renew my plea to lift sequestration.

I think our Guard has demonstrated the kind of pilots we have and the kind of maintenance we have for it.

I would join Senator Collins' request that this be a bill that this Committee will take up following the important work that you are doing today.

I am very honored to also support Senator Collins' bill, which she mentioned earlier, because we have to get resources and assistance to the most vulnerable youth in our communities who are being targeted by these criminals.

The absence of corruption would be a major thing, especially with the police.

We have got to stop this devastating crime from happening in the first place.

Think how much more we would accomplish if we stopped it from happening in the first place.

I don't disagree that is part of our problem.

Much of that country remains under Taliban control with a weak central government.

I have seen some very disturbing photos that purport to show Iraqi security force personnel, military, and militias operating, with them torturing people, killing them, either beheading them or beheading them after they were dead.

In a world as dangerous as today, we are far stronger when we act together.

I realized that 50 years of policy on Cuba hadn't worked.

We tried to check the priorities of whoever was in the White House, whether it was a Democrat or Republican as President.