Thank you. Governor?

I would also like to enter into the record the fact that the Koch Brothers representing the fossil fuel industry will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on this campaign trying to defeat Democrats.

Somebody has got to lead. This Country leads.

We should not disagree on what scientists tell us.

We can respect science, we can respect the planet.

Climate change is real, it is significantly caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in our Country and throughout the world.

We are now in a very strange moment and that is we have virtually an entire political party that is rejecting basic science.

the money should go where the threats are and where the targets are.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Veterans Health Care

Madam President, what the recent crisis at the Veterans' Administration has taught us is that the cost of war does not end when the last shots are fired and the last missiles are launched. The cost of war continues until the last veteran…

I say this as somebody who may have the highest pro-labor voting record in the U.S. Congress.

the great work that has been done at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been done not because of but in spite of opposition.

I have learned that until you hear both sides of a story, you should not draw conclusions.

I am committed to getting to the bottom of the allegations of discrimination. I believe that discrimination is abhorrent and that it must be eradicated.

The truth is we spent $621 million on a visitors center, a congressional visitors center. It cost $621 million.

We have reached a point in time where we have to take the axe of truth and slam it into the tree of circumstance and let the chips fall where they may.

I hate discrimination and all of its manifestations.

The truth is, Mr. Cordray, that if you eliminated the work on the building, the renovation process today, it would not end the argument, the opposition to the CFPB.