Madam President, I will support final passage of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act which will reauthorize the user fee agreements that govern the fees paid by the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to the…

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce legislation, with Senators Blumenthal, Brown, Cantwell, Merkley, Vitter, and Wyden, that will codify an agreement reached by the nation's largest egg producer organization, the United Egg Producers…

Mr. President, for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…

we have to keep that strait open.

I believe just the opposite to be true.

We continue to face a challenging and complex global security environment, with multiple transnational threats including violent extremism, the destabilizing behavior of nations like Iran and North Korea, military modernization across the…

Candidly, I join my boss, Secretary Panetta, and Marty Dempsey in finding it awkward to suggest that other nations should follow rules that we have not yet agreed to ourselves.

We are pushing for a rules-based order in the region and the peaceful resolution of maritime and territorial disputes in the South China Sea, in the Strait of Hormuz, and elsewhere. How can we argue that other nations must abide by…

Yes. I believe strongly that joining the Convention would assist U.S. efforts to get countries with excessive maritime claims to drop their spurious restrictions on freedom of navigation.

It is absolutely imperative that we retain the capability to protect our access to the skies, the high seas, the straits, and even the territorial waters of other nations with respect to innocent passage.

I can assure you that we will not let this happen and the Convention does not require it.

Yes. I believe that being a party to the Convention would help enlist support from other countries to get offending countries to drop their spurious claims.

I think the question you have to ask yourself is whether or not acceding to this Convention gives us the best of both worlds.

I strongly believe that accession to this treaty is absolutely essential not only to our economic interests, our diplomatic interests, but I am here to say that it is extremely important to our national security interests as well.

By finally acceding to the Convention, we help make our Nation more secure and more prosperous for generations to come.

The fact is that we are dealing with a world in which there are myriad threats that we confront now.

That is absolutely correct.

It simply should not be acceptable to us that the United States will be absent from either of those discussions.