Thanks to the increased budget caps, Senator Reed and I were able to include an additional $12.6 billion for THUD programs in the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus bill.

The Society of Civil Engineers rated 40 percent of my State's roads as being in fair or unacceptable conditions.

I think is absolutely critical.

I'm introducing three bipartisan bills to address this crisis.

we need to take an all-of-the-above approach to addressing the opioid epidemic.

I want to personally thank you for the inclusion of additional funding for training vessel replacement in the President's Budget Request.

I think the concern that many of us have who represent lower-income large rural states is from our discussions with the private sector...

we have the opportunity today to take immediate action to lower the cost of health insurance by as much as 40 percent and to increase the affordability of insurance for millions of Americans who purchase plans in the individual market. I…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate proceeds to the consideration of the House message to accompany H.R. 1625, the omnibus appropriations bill, the Collins-Alexander amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to. The PRESIDING…

I have known and admired Thad Cochran for 40 years--since he first came to the Senate. At the time, I was a young staffer for Senator Bill Cohen, who also was elected to the Senate that same year. I saw from the start that this gentleman…

I want to make three points in response to the objection that was raised by my friend and colleague from Washington State. The first is timing. According to the Senator from Washington, we have all the time in the world. Regrettably, that…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and again, let me thank you and the Vice Chairman for your strong bipartisan leadership of this investigation.

I personally am surprised that the Department has not been more proactive in that area in submitting requests to the Congress.

this week I joined my colleague, the senior Senator from Vermont, Mr. Leahy, in introducing the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act. This bill would update and reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act programs…

State election officials have expressed apprehension about the risk that being too public about the threat that we face might provoke exactly the impression that they're endeavoring to dispel.

We can't wait. We can't just be focused on November.

I believe the bills that many of us have co-sponsored called for far more funding than that, like $386 million.

All of the patches aren't going to work if we don't have a strategy of deterrence.