I wish to congratulate Maui's Komoda Store and Bakery on their 100-year anniversary. I visited the bakery in Makawao last month and met the Komoda and Shibuya families who are carrying on the tradition of serving the Maui community. In…

I wish to recognize the many accomplishments of my colleague Senator Barbara Mikulski, the dean of the Senate women. When she took office during the 100th Congress in 1987, Barbara was the first Democratic woman Senator elected in her own…

Under U.S. law, it is illegal for you or me or any American to provide any type of assistance to al Qaeda, ISIS, or other terrorist groups. If we broke this law, we would be thrown in jail. Yet the U.S. Government has been violating this…

the legislation I will introduce shortly focuses on a small sector of the Federal workforce. But there is a broader message that I would like to deliver as well today. There is something I want to say to all Federal workers: I have got…

I wish to recognize the many accomplishments of my friend, Senator Harry Reid, my colleague from Nevada, during his storied career in the U.S. Senate. Growing up in a modest household without an indoor bathroom, hot water, or a telephone…

every year I hear from hundreds of constituents about the transformative impact Medicare has on their lives. For many of them, Medicare is literally the difference between life and death, between living with dignity or in abject poverty…

My heart is in Hawaii today. At almost this exact time, on this very day 75 years ago, the first bombs were dropped in the attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 2,400 people perished on that fateful day that will forever live in infamy. We…

I rise to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the people of Hawaii, it started as an ordinary sunny Sunday morning in December. Families were getting ready for church; others were preparing breakfast. It was…

I rise to join my colleagues to pay tribute to Vice President Joe Biden. Joe has made countless contributions to our country throughout his more than 40 years in public service and six terms in the U.S. Senate. Whether it was passing the…

Growing up in Hawaii, I learned the value of caring for our home, caring for our planet, and the basic principle that we are all connected in this great chain of cause and effect. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a threat to this great…

I am rising today in strong opposition to H.R. 6392. It is a dangerous bill that puts the economic security of millions of Americans at risk. Let's not forget that just 8 short years ago, the lives of Americans all across the country were…

Should conflict arise, the reduced SSC inventory would result in delays for the arrival of required forces and/or risk to other missions.

When we okay a block buy, then we are letting go of the oversight responsibilities that this Congress has.

I think it is really important that we have those kinds of very specific items that you are going to follow.

Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific appears to gain in importance, given recent actions of North Korea and China.

I am concerned about the issue raised in the testimony of Paul Francis of the Government Accountability Office stating that committing to the block buy of the frigate variant of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) at this point in time would be…

A reduction to 40 ships, employed under the same operating constructs, would result in about six fewer ships deployed globally conducting steady state theater security operations.

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was scheduled to produce 52 ships. However, in December of 2015, the Secretary of Defense directed the Navy to reduce the LCS buy from 52 ships to 40.