Too often when we think about human trafficking as a tragedy, we think about it as something that goes on in someone else's country, in some other place other than our home. Most people are surprised to find out that thousands of men…

I would like to thank my friend Senator Murray for organizing this block of time for us--you have just heard from Senator Warren--and for all the work Senator Murray has done to fight for women all across the country. Today's debate is the…

Meredith was 21 weeks pregnant when she learned that her second baby boy was missing half of his heart. It had stopped growing properly at around 5 weeks, but it wasn't detectable until her 20-week anatomy scan. Meredith's decision to…

utilizing the debt ceiling statute as a sort of opportunity to take a policy ransom only harms our country.

I urge the Members of this Committee to review this study to inform your decisions as you work through this reauthorization.

The best way to prevent students and taxpayers from another Corinthian or ITT Tech, is to improve oversight of schools on the front end by accreditors.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Fowlkes, thank you for everything that you and the FCC have been doing.

why is an incoming missile not absolutely the kind of thing that would ride on that President alert?

NAB salutes Senators Jerry Moran (KS) and Brian Schatz (HI) for their bipartisan legislation, the Viewer and Listener Protection Act.

Could you get back to us about whether you need additional authorities to try to move that along?

I think the chain in that alert system needs to be modified to reflect the seriousness of the threat.

It seems to me that the FCC, at least in their investigatory process, has to assess the extent to which we had problems.

I thought I heard the Senator from North Carolina suggest that we stay in and get this done tonight. I think we still have a chance to get this done before 1 a.m.

I have one last unanimous consent request, and I appreciate the participation from the Senator from North Carolina. I appreciate our dialogue here. I think this is constructive and productive. This last UC request is very simple. It is the…

when Donald Trump was a private citizen during the last government shutdown, he said: Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the President's the leader, and he's got to get everybody in a room, and he's…

so here is the state of play. There is a group of 19 to 22 U.S. Senators, a bipartisan group that is trying to find a pathway forward. Senators Schumer and McConnell had a meeting. We don't know exactly how that went. There are some…

I just want to briefly respond to the Senator from North Carolina. I actually agree it would be a half measure to open the government for 24 hours; it would be a half measure to pass just CHIP; it would be a half measure to open the…

I was going to give some prepared remarks, but I want to be a little quicker because I see the Senator from Virginia here, and I know how devastating a government shutdown is for the State of Virginia. It is terrible for Hawaii--for our…