At $3.4 billion, the overall Department of Defense fiscal year 2017 budget request for the European Reassurance Initiative is four times the amount requested last year.

I believe that your record of bolstering our Naval Fleet will be one of your greatest legacies.

I rise to speak in support of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, known as CARA, of which I am proud to be a cosponsor. I want to begin by commending Senators Whitehouse and Portman for crafting this vitally important bill and…

Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, I rise today as a cosponsor of the Digital Security Commission Act, a bill that will establish a national bipartisan commission to examine digital security and privacy and the ``going dark'' problem…

There is no substitute for presence in our ability to project power.

I've been very concerned about the build-up of the Chinese Navy. This is a real issue that concerns me as China has been more and more aggressive.

when I first entered this body in the winter of 2013, I was appointed to the Intelligence Committee. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we would meet for several hours talking about very difficult, very complex, and sometimes very scary issues…

One of our brave American heroes is the late U.S. Army Corporal Joseph O'Clair of Ashland, Maine. Corporal O'Clair fought for our freedom and was seriously wounded in the brutal month-long Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in Korea. In November…

today I ask the Senate to join me in honoring the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS, as it celebrates 50 years of service in support of the Department of the Navy, its military and civilian personnel, their families, and the…

I would express my alarm and concern that there is not sufficient funding, and certainly encourage you to do whatever is possible.

We do need a more cooperative and aggressive approach to get after these terrible con artists.

In response to this problem, Senator Leahy and I have introduced a bill to greatly toughen the penalties for straw purchasing and illegal firearms trafficking.

I hope you will have a listening session in a rural area--we talked about that in my office--as opposed to just large urban areas like L.A. and DC.

It is a small amount of money, and it has done a lot of good.

I think it is important to note that the heroin epidemic affects tiny towns, rural areas, as well as our larger cities.

I am very disappointed and, indeed, in some ways shocked, that the administration did not include any funding at all for this program.

we have to address it when we are back in our home State, and people are always asking us, how is the Federal government helping?

Even if they were reworded to say, was your pain attended to or managed, rather than being worded in the way they are, I think it would help.