Additionally, legislative proposals such as Rep. Kelly Armstrong and Sen. Portman's Federal Permitting Reform and Jobs Act should be included in any infrastructure proposal.

I think you end up maybe hurting in the long run if you try to bring the Federal Government in as someone that tries to moderate the situation.

I am perplexed by this administration’s desire to keep this pandemic going.

But there is no doubt in my mind that we have to get them back into sports, into clubs, into school as quickly as possible, or these gaps are going to continue to grow.

There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.

The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring insofar as the type of rapid spread that was frequently observed in congregate living facilities or high-density work sites has not been reported in…

There is a reason we have juvenile courts. There is a reason we treat juveniles in the court system significantly different than we do adults.

I think there are probably Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle that may not be here if we all had social media when we were 13 years old.

I am not convinced we should be collecting any of this data on kids without parental consent.

Mounting evidence shows it is safe for reopening schools and that the risk of in-person learning contributing to the spread of COVID-19 is low.

Schools are generally not major contributors of community transmission.

Do not leave out the part on research universities, because you did a good job of summarizing the rest, but make sure you touch that, too, will you?

I don't want to leave anything off of the table as a solution.

I have been a strong proponent of nuclear, and I just want to associate myself with everything that Senator Cardin said.

I think we are not that far away from actually having even fossil energy being largely, if not completely, carbon-free.

there is not a better fuel in the world than nuclear for accomplishing the goals that you want to accomplish.

I would like to thank the Senator from Montana for offering this amendment and to speak strongly in support of the amendment. In 2015, S. 1 authorized the Keystone Pipeline. So we have voted on this before, and we have approved it. We need…

all the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.