Are we going to show us the money in rural America.

There is no economic future for any part of our country if it doesn't have high speed internet.

We want infrastructure funding that is real so that there is broadband in rural America.

We know about 40 percent of rural America has no broadband. Not slow broadband, no broadband.

there has got to be money just like there was with rural electrification.

No funding, no broadband. It is as simple as that.

Veterans and their families deserve better. They deserve to have VA decide their appeals accurately and within a reasonable amount of time.

The success of this reform is critical, because the current appeals process is failing veterans miserably.

I would like to take a moment to remember a remarkable Vermonter, Tim O'Connor, who passed away last week. For those of us who knew him, Tim was unforgettable. He had a terrific sense of humor, especially when it involved the Irish…

The good news is this budget is going nowhere.

If somebody says, 'I am going to build you this weapons system for $5 billion,' and then they come back and say, 'Oh, I am sorry, it cost $10 billion,' is there somebody at the Department of Defense that says, 'Well, you are going to have…

What are we going to do after giving CEOs of these defense companies huge salaries, tell them that they cannot continue to rip off the American people?

You have just created a situation--not you; the President must take responsibility for this budget--created a situation where people will go cold, some may freeze to death, and that is not what we should be doing in America.

President Trump's budget would slash Medicaid by over $1.3 trillion, cut Medicare by over $500 billion, and reduce Social Security by nearly $25 billion.

You do not do that by cutting Social Security. What you do do is say to the wealthiest people in this country, who in many ways have never had it so good, you recognize the fact that income and wealth inequality is worse today than at any…

Let me tell the President, Mr. Mulvaney, it gets cold in Vermont and many other parts of this country.

I do not think there is any debate among anybody here that we want to be able to defend our country.

I appreciate very much, Mr. Chairman, the hearing that you held in March on the need for an audit of the Department of Defense.