A strong, well-staffed Department of State is critical to the success of our overseas military mission.

make sure we never have to fight a fair fight.

Our ability to project and sustain force, at the time and place of our choosing, is one of the most critical elements of our military might.

The President's budget proposal continues the Republican obsession with repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would strip healthcare away from tens of millions of Americans.

as the Senate takes to the floor to debate a long-overdue, bipartisan solution for Dreamers--young immigrants who came to our country as children--I would like to tell you a story about one Dreamer in my home State of New Mexico to…

I think one of the things you'll find at White Sands is that it's an incredibly safe community, with good-quality family housing, and, for that matter, one of the best schools in the State.

So would you agree with the CBO's score--that the CBO said at the very least that Graham-Cassidy reduces Medicaid by $1 trillion?

I believe healthcare is a right, not a luxury. I believe healthcare should be affordable no matter your income, accessible no matter where you live, high quality no matter how you're insured.

I think it deserves some oversight.

I look forward to seeing those scheduled so we could get to the bottom of this, and I'll be submitting more questions to the record to find out what's been investigated.

I would provide with their support a list of things that keep them afloat and the kinds of things that would go away under this budget.

I would like to invite you to come with me to New Mexico and we can go to the Navajo Nation.

As we all know, the census is a critically important government function, and yet the current Administration has yet to nominate a qualified candidate to lead the Census Bureau in the critical years leading up to 2020.

The census has a big impact on Indian Country when it comes to voting, one of our most essential civil rights.

I have a long history of working with the Federal Trade Commission on false labeling of sports equipment, especially sports equipment targeted to young people.

A first priority for the Commission, if I am confirmed, is going to be making sure we are doing vigorous enforcement.

I oppose injecting politics into the census with these types of questions, which will likely have a chilling effect on communities that are already at risk of being undercounted.

The census can have a profound influence on the issue of voting accessibility, everything from a constituent's voting district to the availability of language assistance at the polls.