I mean, you can see it, for instance, in housing and other places and that regulation has been part of the mix.

Thank you very much. I thank the panel.

I think that is a huge thing you are doing.

the energy companies have to be part of the solution.

Congress should recognize that it is as likely as not that these veterans were in fact exposed to Agent Orange.

Is this institution broken or has our leadership fled the field? This rule will deprive the House of having a debate on the Dreamers. Eighty-two percent of the American people think these innocent kids who came here should be given legal…

I was simply going to add to what the Senator from Tennessee was saying. Senator Shelby and I have tried to keep things that are inappropriate out of the appropriations bill so that we may actually pass some appropriations bills. So I will…

let me thank Senator Merkley and others for organizing this important discussion--a discussion designed to reclaim American values. I also want to take this opportunity not just to thank Senator Merkley but to thank millions of people from…

if we were, we wouldn't need the Choice Program or the Mission Act we just passed.

In my opinion, all the years I worked in health care, I don't--the personnel, the people who work in the systems are the most important.

I agree with you. We have a hospital--a private hospital and VA campuses that meet each other, and I can assure you that the hospital director at the private hospital is not compensated the same as the one at the VA is; I agree with that…

I have been in the Senate long enough to think that maybe the Senate can start to go back to being the Senate. A Senate that votes on things and debates things and reflects the will of the people--not what is dictated from the White House…

He created the crisis. He could end the crisis.

Are Midwest farmers doing?

You have a president who has given tax breaks to billionaires, who wants to cut programs that working people desperately need and he thinks as authoritarian types all over Europe believe, that if you foment anger against immigrants and…

The American people overwhelmingly, poll after poll after poll, want comprehensive immigration reform.

The idea of tearing little children from the arms of their parents, putting them into detention cages, and then making a big deal about an executive order which may do absolutely nothing for these 2,300 children is literally beyond belief.

I appreciate the comments from my friend, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. As many know, Chairman Shelby and I have been friends for decades. We have traveled to different parts of the world and tried to promote the U.S…