To my colleague Mr. Biggs, I condemn the violence in Portland.

The importance of the Department of Defense mission along with its significant taxpayer resources means that it must be a model for efficiency and for accountability.

In my view, we face the existential threat of addressing climate change, which could wreak havoc on our country and the world.

We have to confront this threat to the American way.

I believe it is critical for us to confront domestic violent extremism in all forms.

President Trump had been calling for this rally for really since the election itself.

The violence on January 6th was simply the latest chapter in this long history of domestic extremism in America.

We cannot strike a match near gas and then act surprised when it catches fire.

I think what is important about this is not only the accountability, but continuing to show to the Department how seriously you are taking these issues.

If we secure our Nation at the expense of our precious liberties, then we could hardly claim victory at all.

Over the last 4 years, extremists who were once relegated to the fringes of our society, uniformly condemned by our Nation's leaders, both parties, suddenly felt they had support at the highest level of the United States Government.

Our child care system is dysfunctional, and we have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth.

If we`re going to achieve anything meaningful for working families, we must use reconciliation, abolish the filibuster, pass legislation with 51 votes. We can`t afford to wait.

We want that to change.

Burn pits have been too widely used, and soldiers who were in the vicinity of those burn pits were exposed to all kinds of toxic materials.

So how do we get into those underserved areas and have a policy where, from the very beginning, that is what we are doing?

We believe it is time to consider doing what we did with Agent Orange, and that is apply a presumption of disability to soldiers who have illnesses.

I am introducing legislation that would incentivize public, on-street, publicly available EC charging.