This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

I think the Respublican party's lost its way. We have given into nativism and protectionism. And I think that, if we're going to be a governing party in the future, and a majority party, we have got to go back to traditional conservatism, limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility, respect for free trade. Those are the principles that made us who we are.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

I rise today with no small measure of regret, regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

I'm also particularly pleased that there is bipartisan support to include the input of border communities. Not only will security be strengthened according to Washington, D.C., but border communities will have a say as well.