My guess is that historians in years to come will look back at hearings like this and they will ask, what were they thinking about?

Right now, according to NASA, the first six months of 2017 were almost a full degree hotter than any year since records started being kept in 1880.

Don't you think that Alaska should be leading our country in terms of transforming our energy system away from the products that have caused the problems that are impacting your state?

All over this planet today we are seeing nations, including our own, ravaged by the impact of climate change.

But we will never flip that switch as long we continue investing in oil and gas.

It is especially surprising that in a beautiful state like Alaska, which has been hit so hard by climate change, that you are not leading the world.

let me begin by pointing out an op-ed that appeared in the Boston Globe today. It is an op-ed that I wrote. It is called ``The health care crisis no one is talking about.'' Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this op-ed be printed…

the United States today faces a major healthcare crisis. I think we all understand that. In the midst of that healthcare crisis, we face an even greater crisis in primary healthcare, and that means that there are many, many millions of…

Let me ask one question on that. The last trip I took to Afghanistan, we had some of our Justice Department folks who were there, and they were teaching Afghan Government officials about how to detect corruption.

I believe that it has allowed those who believe the policy in Afghanistan is the right direction but it is not necessarily being implemented right.

your office has been the 'just the facts, ma'am' approach to what is happening to taxpayer dollars.

I want to say three things about this budget: First, deficits matter. Deficits matter. This budget explicitly raises the deficit. It admits to $1.5 trillion, more likely $2.5 trillion. That means that our children and our grandchildren are…

Hate speech is not free speech.

We need a date certain. I mean time is marching on. This story shocked folks and rightly so because everybody in America is just devastated by what is happening to friends, to family, to loved ones.

All of us on this panel were involved in hearings on the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act and it passed out of this committee unanimously.

something truly outrageous is happening today on the floor of the Senate. The resolution we will consider today signals to the American people, in no uncertain terms, that they do not deserve the right to seek justice when big banks or…

I just want to address very briefly one other issue that surfaced last week. Press reports indicate there are multiple nominees of President Trump awaiting Senate confirmation, but even though they haven't been confirmed--there has not…

let me just speak for a few minutes on the emergency supplemental appropriations for disasters. No one in this Chamber is immune from disaster. Six years ago, I remember, in Vermont, Marcelle and I watched as communities around Vermont…