Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

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

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.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways that you would have never done before, ascribing the worst motives to your opponents, and assuming that other Americans are the enemies. And that's just not the way it used to be. And I don't think it can be that way in the future.

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

President Trump and his administration are right to be concerned about national security, but it's unacceptable when even legal permanent residents are being detained or turned away at airports and ports of entry.