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I contrast that port security effort with what I perceive to be a real vulnerability in our ability to detect and effectively and quickly respond to an attack using biological or chemical agents.

I want to applaud you for your leadership in this area.

Between 2010 and 2015, the number of grandparents taking care of their grandchildren and being solely responsible for their care soared by 24 percent, and it's because of the opioid epidemic.

I held a hearing in the Aging Committee to look at this issue of grandparents raising their grandkids due to the opioid crisis.

You've said that heroin is what you get when you destroy Dreamland. You've said that isolation is heroin's natural habitat.

In your investigation, did you find that drug dealers tend to target communities that are economically devastated?

This is a whole different approach for law enforcement to take--rather than locking people up, helping them to get the help that they need.

What has been discouraging to me is despite much greater public awareness and much more money and much greater intentions that the problem does not seem to be getting much better.

Thank you for writing such an important book that offers us possibilities.

If we have gone from 60 to 51, and if we are shortening the time, and if we are drifting away from the blue slip requirement, it seems to me we are moving very rapidly toward a majority only.

Senator Susan Collins voted yes the first time around. It looks like she's on her way to that this time around, putting out a statement, lotting this Senate bill.

The missiles that I was referring to are very clear to the gentlewoman from California. They deal specifically with the Iran nuclear deal, which is a dangerous deal for this world and for this country. It has nothing to do with any issue…

Can the gentlewoman repeat the question again? I didn't understand it.

The dangerous Iran nuclear deal that was put together a year and a half or 2 years ago has absolutely nothing to do with exposing the wealth that has cumulated through corruption by the top 70 to 80 Iranian political and military leaders…

To the gentlewoman from California and to the other side of the aisle, I do want to make sure I make a few things clear. First of all, I am not sure if it was the gentlewoman or someone else saying: Why in the dickens would we divert…

I agree with your statement that we haven't gotten there, but nobody has come up with an alternative for solving this problem that would maintain Israel as a democratic Jewish state.

I don't see how you can ignore one of the most significant decisions in terms of the Middle East.

This decision that is being made tomorrow is terrible on a lot of levels.