Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing to shine a light on a life-or-death matter for many Americans, veterans who are struggling with painful and sometimes overwhelming mental health problems related to the unique challenges of…

I'm a little concerned that if we allow the rate-limiting factor in terms of the uptake for telehealth to be broadband availability, there are going to be communities that are still unable to access care.

According to the VA approximately 20 veterans commit suicide every day.

I think it's peers. I think it's community groups. I think it's not-for-profit organizations that have community credibility that are going to be able to reconnect these service members to VA.

I am an advocate of establishing a Navy ROTC unit in Hawaii.

I think those two questions are completely connected to each other in the sense that our effectiveness in being able to get China to do more, or to signal to North Korea the credibility of our deterrence, or any of our policies, greatly…

I think it was important for Secretary Mattis to visit Japan and South Korea as his first official secretarial duties.

So there could not be a single, more important signal of United States staying power in the region than something like APSI that is investing in the things that constitute the United States security presence in Asia.

But our credibility is our currency. So the minute you undertake actions that undermine credibility, that has a profound effect in the region in terms of how we are perceived.

Well, give me a number.

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts for her impassioned, well-reasoned, persuasive remarks. All too often, Judge Gorsuch fixates on what we call the plain meaning of a word in the law and decides on his own meaning that he would give…

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I thank my colleague, Senator Murray, our assistant Democratic leader, for her continuing, longstanding leadership on behalf of women and families in our country. Over the past hour, my colleagues and I have laid out a fair case against…

I thank my colleague from California, Senator Harris, for her eloquent and persuasive remarks. I am now joined by my colleague, the Senator from Massachusetts. I yield to her. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts.

over the next hour, a number of my colleagues and I will join together to speak in opposition to the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. We are joining together today because this…

I am joined by my colleague from California, Senator Harris. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.

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