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let me begin by thanking my two colleagues, Senator Moran and Senator Blumenthal, for their tremendous leadership on the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletics Act. I am very proud to be a cosponsor of their bill. This shows…
I have listened to the presentations of my two colleagues, Senator Cassidy and Senator Menendez, and I could not agree with them more. We have an opportunity to solve a problem that is affecting each and every community in our country…
If you don't tell your adversary that you will respond, then it is not a deterrent.
We have to determine what are the crucial elements? What are the crucial sectors that need to be functioning, no matter what?
Winston Churchill said the only thing worse than fighting with your allies is fighting without allies.
We are the most wired and vulnerable country in the world.
I think one thing the pandemic has taught us is that the unthinkable can happen.
We need to be more active participants in setting the standards and the guardrails and the norms for activity in cyberspace.
I rise today to join my colleague from Arizona, Senator Sinema, in introducing legislation to support the operation of a national child abuse hotline. Of all the major national help hotlines, the crisis line for child abuse and neglect…
the Paycheck Protection Program of forgivable loans has been a lifeline to millions of our small businesses and their employees. According to a recent census survey, more than 76 percent of Maine's small businesses reported receiving a PPP…
The purpose of my amendment is to call attention to the shortage of VA mental health and substance use disorder facilities. For example, veterans in my home State of Maine must travel hundreds of miles out of State to access long-term…
I rise today to express my support for the National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the Senate today with strong bipartisan support, and to highlight a number of its important provisions, as well as amendments that I have authored…
I am not sure who outed me on the birthday, but I appreciate the well wishes. Madam Speaker, I thank the subcommittee chairwoman for her strong support on this issue. This is the second year in a row that the chairwoman and her committee…
first, let me recognize and thank Senator Grassley for his extraordinary leadership on an issue that matters so greatly to the American people, and that is the high cost of prescription drugs. His persistence has produced the Prescription…
I rise to introduce a bill with my colleague, Senator Smith that will help the hardworking loggers across this Nation whose operations have suffered serious losses directly due to the pandemic. In Maine alone, logging has a roughly $650…
I thank Chairman Smith for yielding. I want to take a moment to talk about an amendment coming forward today having to do with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. I think it is particularly important. Having deployed to Afghanistan and…
I, like Mr. Peterson, think we should have just done a SNAP increase all along.