I just want to implore EPA to see the States as partners and work with them and to accept their leadership.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Across the country, the opioid epidemic is devastating families and communities. In Rhode Island, the COVID-19 pandemic is only worsening this crisis. In 2020 alone, accidental overdose deaths in Rhode…

today I honor one of the most dedicated, selfless, and accomplished leaders I have known, my late classmate, COL Jeff Jones. Jeff passed away in 2010 after a heroic battle with brain cancer, but his legacy will be engraved in steel this…

I think that is really a huge gap in our knowledge of what is going on.

I think if these credit funds want to operate as investment banks, they should be regulated in the same way.

I, too, like Senator Cramer, want to raise the issue of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule while we are here.

I am delighted to be recommending this legislation developed with your member and my friend, Senator Cassidy.

We need to provide that fairness and that revenue to the adjoining states.

We are facing a very challenging, very daunting, and very complex situation in Afghanistan.

How do we manage this difficult balance between providing, or at least not interfering with the humanitarian assistance, and still maintaining sanctions effective sanctions against the Taliban?

We believe that ultimately in order for humanitarian assistance to flow the Taliban has to allow that to happen within the country.

This hearing is a reminder, really, of the continuing obligation that we have to help support emerging democracies around the world.

We saw firsthand in Afghanistan how corruption really can erode public confidence in government and ultimately jeopardize longtime stability.

I think supporting civil society is really important, because civil society plays right now the role of checks and balances on the work and decisions of the President.

Jeff Clark and Trump had done, the committee that referred Jeff Clark to the bar association for potential disciplinary action.

He`s the central person in this saga, and at some point, his testimony is going to be obtained.

as we go over the wonderful things that Build Back Better offers--including tax benefits for families with children, support for home care and childcare for family members, lower prescription drug costs--I want to focus on a particular…

I think there’s three really key takeaways from. This first it’s a very simple one, and that’s how deeply, personally involved, President Trump, was in all of this -- meetings, in phone calls, and contacts, Oval Office, he was neck deep in…