It's bad for the rule of law and for our understanding as law-abiding citizens to have laws or regulations on the books that we do not enforce.

We need to have some soul-searching conversations about what--both capacity and capability we need to build for the future.

I think it is extraordinarily important, so definitely an issue we have to talk about.

Well, there's always going to be the omnipresent offenders of the nonexistent problems of the people.

Maybe that's why they chose not to have somebody from EPA here.

I just would like to remind everyone that the other side of the aisle had an opportunity to bring in whatever witnesses they desired to.

if EPA succeeded in destroying this industry where people safely for the public and otherwise compete on private property, it would just be devastating

we have to be more aggressive in supporting Ukraine and isolating Russia's influence.

It has truly been, I think, the appropriate oversight by the United States Senate.

Are the reforms aimed at giving judges the independence they need to make independent choices rather than just following the will of the political elite?

I am deeply concerned that our strategies during the next couple months need to be focused on European unity and focused on the culprit in Ukraine, which is Russia.

So what do we do to specifically hold Ukraine accountable on judicial reform?

We are concerned about Europe looking to the lack of reforms in Ukraine as a reason to back away from some of the sanctions that are in place against Russia.

If more assistance can be directed to NGOs, we should do that.

The pressure by the administration on Russia has not been what most of us would have liked to have seen.

I agree with you that Russia is the aggressor. Russia is the one that invaded Crimea and took it over and invaded eastern Ukraine.

As you may know, the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, of which I am co-chair, has formed an LGBT Aging Issues Task Force.

I think that we definitely need people trained, especially in the STEM areas.