I am supporting Senator Wyden's bill, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2015 because...

One of the reasons I first came to Congress was to ensure promises made to our veterans, troops, and their families were promises kept.

They should never be suddenly saddled with bills years later due to the VA's inability to properly track, record, and bill for services.

I thank the subcommittee chairman and the ranking member for the time. More importantly, I thank both of them and their respective staffs for the bipartisan and continuously exceptional effort to serve our veterans. I thank them for the…

Mr. President, I would like to return the kind words of my colleague from Delaware and thank him for his leadership in this whole field of manufacturing and filling the skills gap that we see all over this country and getting young people…

In Minnesota, forests are a big part of the culture of our state, but also of our economy, employing 40,000 people in the forest industry, $9.7 billion.

Yes. Thank you.

I am most concerned about the fact that the transfers of money... is taking away from what we can do to prevent these fires from happening in the first place.

Exactly. Thank you, Mr. Dougan, for your work, as well.

Thank you.

I believe that we have an obligation to these women and men who have signed up to serve us.

This is a very important bill and subject. And I want to thank the Chairman and Senator Schatz for the work that they have done on this.

That is what DI means to Vets.

those who are seeking disability insurance already are experiencing a level of hardship most Americans do not.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Linda Chmielewski from St. Cloud for receiving a 2015 Nurse of the Year award from the Minnesota March of Dimes. Linda, who is the vice president and chief nursing officer at St. Cloud…

Once again we're focussing on leadership or issues with it instead of focussing on the veterans.

Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of reauthorizing the Ex-Im Bank. I know some of my colleagues were here earlier, and I wanted to join them, but I was at a hearing over in commerce. I do want to thank Senators Cantwell and Kirk…

The work that Senator Thune and I are doing on trying to get more funding from the Universal Service Fund for broadband, which I think is the number-one thing I have been hearing.