I do have a concern that I want to keep in mind in this Committee about the proposal that has come out of the administration for infrastructure.

I think it is a new thing in Maine as well, ma'am.

I would thank the Senator for his gracious comments. As always, it has been a great pleasure to work with him, and I know he cares deeply about the constitutional principle that brings us to the floor today. Let us defend the Constitution…

I rise today to speak on the resolution that I am joining Senator Udall in introducing. It would reverse the President's ill-advised decision to declare a national emergency and commandeer funding provided for other purposes by Congress…

as Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee, I rise today to introduce, with the Committee's Ranking Member, Senator Bob Casey, the ``Guardianship Accountability Act of 2019,'' a bill that would assist States in improving guardianship…

after careful consideration, I have decided to oppose the confirmation of Andrew Wheeler, the nominee for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. While Mr. Wheeler is certainly qualified for this position, I have too…

I rise in sadness and somewhat perplexed because what we are doing in this colloquy is recreating a statement, a letter, as the Senator from Minnesota outlined, that was sent by six of our predecessors in December of 1986, warning about…

I am one of the people who doesn't support the proposed relocation and reorganization of the two USDA agricultural research agencies, NIFA and ERS.

I think that the reorganization of ERS jeopardizes some of the scientific integrity by injecting politics into the work.

I do not feel like it has been a transparent process.

Stakeholders have suggested to me that the ERS reorganization was proposed because research coming out of the agency didn't align with the administration's views on topics such as SNAP or climate change.

I have a lot of concerns about the proposed relocation and reorganization of NIFA and ERS, and I think every Democrat on this subcommittee and I have expressed our opposition to the plan.

Obviously in the State of Maine, we care deeply about our relationship with the Nature Conservancy and conservation organizations, and we love our parks.

Any increase we can have in funding makes a huge difference, at the State level.

I think I may be the only person represented in the room who represents a district on the ocean. And I am very pleased that our entire congressional delegation of all parties, Republican, Democrat, and Independent, have opposed offshore…

I look forward to our visit to Walter Reed. I have heard about the program before, and thank you for your testimony.

Thank you for your testimony.

I am actually about to submit a bipartisan bill on ocean acidification which I worked on before.