Included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 is the commitment that $2 billion in fiscal year 2018 and $2 billion in fiscal year 2019 will be used to, quote, ``rebuild and improve VA hospitals and clinics,'' end of quote.

I intend to do everything I can to see that money goes into infrastructure.

How do we provide quality care in a timely manner to veterans if you have so many vacancies?

But when we put money into the VA, we expect it to stay in the VA.

it is about time we had a debate, if only for a few hours, on the participation of the U.S. military in the civil war in Yemen. Frankly, I cannot comprehend nor am I able to explain to my Vermont constituents the ongoing involvement of…

Let me ask my friend from Connecticut the same question I asked Senator Lee, and that is whether he agrees with me that we are really dealing with two separate issues here. The first issue is really, in a sense, a no-brainer. It is whether…

My experience in Vermont is not dissimilar to Senator Tester's in Montana, that Choice is causing a whole lot of problems for our veterans, through bureaucracy, inadequate payments, so forth and so on.

It seems to me we are talking about two separate issues, one of which is really a no-brainer. The no-brainer is that the Constitution is very clear that it is the Congress, not the President, that determines whether we go to war; that we…

Let me concur with what Senator Lee just said. There may be disagreements about the wisdom of being allied with Saudi Arabia on the war in Yemen. There will be honest disagreements about that. But there cannot be and there must not be an…

Thank you, Mr. President. Article I, section 8 of the Constitution states in no uncertain terms that ``Congress shall have power to . . . declare war.'' Let me repeat it. Article I, section 8 of the Constitution states it is Congress that…

All right. Let me just concur with Senator Murphy. If you think it is a good idea for the United States to be involved in the war in Yemen with Saudi Arabia, you can vote against our resolution. Yet I can think of no reason at all as to…

the resolution that we will soon be voting on is really very simple. It has two basic points. Point No. 1, I and the 14 other cosponsors of this resolution believe that under the definitions laid out in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, U.S…

I speak only for myself on this issue and will tell you why I am so motivated about this resolution. If we think back on the modern history of our country and if we think of the two most significant foreign policy decisions--the war in…

may I ask my colleague from Utah a very simple question? Whether or not he agrees with me that we are talking about two separate issues. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

pursuant to section 1013 of the Department of State Authorization Act, fiscal years 1984 and 1985, and in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976, I make…

The questionable uses of the decommissioning trust fund, such as for spent fuel management, is a recurring issue.

I have been in the small group market when we started our practice and grew now to the large group market.

The reduction of emergency planning functions during periods when spent fuel remains are in spent fuel pools.