I appreciate the work of Mr. Walden in this area, and I look forward to working with him and yourself, Mr. Chairman, and our members on this issue.

I appreciate you and the ranking member and all the members of the subcommittee for allowing us to be here today for this important conversation.

Mr. President, I have said many times. The Senate is too often a graveyard for good ideas. And the shovel is the broken filibuster. I want to thank Senator Merkley for his remarks about the need to reform the Senate rules. And I want to…

we should reform the 1872 Mining Law to make sure that mining companies pay royalties to taxpayers.

Physical therapy services provide a path to restore mobility after an injury or a medical procedure.

Thank you, Mr. President. Senator Merkley, I have listened very carefully, and I think you and I have worked diligently since we got into the Senate to try to make sure the Senate functions properly. What we want to see more than anything…

shifting the terms of competition is really going to be key to beginning to arrest some of these unsustainable increases both in terms of tuition and in terms of student loan debt.

I suspect, certainly in my case and I suspect many of my colleagues would love to know your thoughts on improving those post-9/11 GI benefits.

the notion that we would continue to discriminate against those populations by not providing adequate Federal funding and access makes no sense if what we're trying to do is to maintain my choice about my high-quality confidential provider.

I can tell you something you already know, that without Planned Parenthood we could not meet those access points.

I have personal experience and know many of my constituents in their 20s and 30s and 40s who without the comprehensive healthcare services would have died from cervical cancer.

And if this committee is going to undertake how Medicaid money is used and not used by every healthcare provider in every State and every local government in the United States, it might be a very interesting hearing about how we can assure…

We would like to see more transparency in being able to telegraph our deterrent, because we all know that--looking back into the Cold War, that our deterrent was very important.

I thank the Senator. I wish you Godspeed on that train headed to Wilmington because you have a wonderful wife.

And let me say again that not only on TSCA, as Senator Carper held, we were going to have speeches earlier in the week, but we were unable, with some of the scheduling issues and everything, to get down here and talk as a group. We had…

Madam President, it bears repeating. Senator Carper is very modest, and he is a humble man, but he has done a lot to help bring us to this point. I think he is one of the Senators here who work the best across the aisle, and that is what…

Madam President, thank you very much for the recognition. I wish to say to Senator Carper about TSCA that we have been working on--you were one of the early Senators who really cared about this issue. You were involved with it, and you…

the fox should be guarding the hen house here. They created the situation.