[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.