Nixon's first instinct was actually to treat opioids as a disease.

This is how America has gone from criminalizing to treating opioids, and then going back again.

So, we have it--we're at an inflection point, where we could potentially criminalize this again, or we could potentially treat the opioid crisis as a health issue.

So, my question is, how do we move from Nixon's first approach of treating this as a disease to the war on drugs that was unleashed just a few years later, in the 1980's, and waging this war on drugs in communities of color?

Because I've met people from all different social backgrounds, all different education backgrounds, come from all communities, not just mine, that are suffering from addiction, because of the lack of funding and resources that is being…

If a school's main goal is to maximize profits, providing a high quality education will never be the top priority.

Madam Chair, I compliment my colleague from California. This is something that is very serious, and obviously, we have been talking about it for a long time now. We are a coequal branch of government. We want the executive branch, no…

I did not vote for the JCPOA because I felt it did not prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, it only postponed it.

there is a lot that we can do as well.

I have been among the biggest critics of the Tehran regime in Congress.

Iran is the world's most prolific State sponsor of terrorism.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I speak in leader time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, last night, the Defense Department announced that 1,000 additional troops would be deployed to the Middle East. This is the second deployment of 1,000 or more troops in the past 30 days, ostensibly to deal with Iran's…

Together we developed a moral agenda, a moral agenda that calls for the elimination of systemic racism, and poverty, ecological devastation, and militarism in the war economy.

We need a moral revolution of values that places the needs and demands of the poor and of the planet at the heart of the budget.

Budgets reflect our deepest values, our most important priorities.

Poverty is people's creation. It is their creation of immoral budgets and unjust policies.

It seems to me that tackling the issue of poverty should be something that we do in a bipartisan way.