No one should be uncertain about our desire for peace or our readiness to normalize relations should we reach a comprehensive deal.

Under the cover of the Syrian civil war, Iran is now trying to plant deep military roots in Syria.

our job here in Congress is to make sure that we do not put U.S. men and women in harm's way without a darn good national security reason.

I think it is important at the top of this that we note that when we talk about Iran, we are talking about the government and not the people, two very different things and I think that is important to distinguish.

The comprehensive deal we seek with the Iranian regime should address four key areas: its nuclear program, its ballistic missile development and proliferation, its lethal support and financial support to terrorist groups and proxies, and…

... we pay tribute to the indomitable spirit of African Americans.

It saddens me that we must be here today, and it saddens me to hear the stories of how school closures have continued to impact student veterans' dreams of earning their degree.

I am convinced that once appropriate mandatory offsets are identified, we should provide full restoration of entitlement to students whose school closed in the middle of the semester.

Our veterans only get one shot at it. And we want to make sure that they have the opportunity to make the best of it.

As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

if it looks like a quack--a duck--and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.

We must do what we can to limit the impact of these closures on student veterans and taxpayers.

the final Title X regulation disregards expert opinion and evidence-based practices.

These changes threaten the quality of family planning available to Title X patients.

Did you look at how many more unintended pregnancies will result from this rule?

Now America is always at its best when we base policy on science.

Our higher education system must give every student the opportunity to be on the right side of this trend.

State disinvestment in higher education has forced students and families to shoulder more of the cost of college.