Dr. Volkov... does believe it is a gateway drug.

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Illinois for her important remarks just now and for her leadership and her friendship to so many of us. She has been an extraordinary hero of mine, personally, and so many of us look to her…

Look, I agree with the framework of the President's budget. The bottom is, we do have to finally prioritize spending.

I have always made known my preference for giving parents the choice of where to send their students.

I do think that the message that comes from the government about drugs is important.

I strongly support and my predecessor, Senator Mikulski, was a champion of the Hubble Telescope and its follow-on, the James Webb Telescope, but also understood the importance of Earth science.

And, you know, the eureka moment happened several years ago and we have been pulling these things together.

the civilized world must make it clear that when you gas people as part of a military operation, that is a war crime.

Europe is in very serious shape right now. That should be a concern of the United States because a strong Europe is in the United States' interest.

They should not be getting sanction relief unless they comply with the Helsinki Accords and remove itself from Crimea and its incursions into eastern Ukraine.

I would just urge--in your statement you say that we should not give sanction relief unless Russia complies with Minsk, and I fully agree with that statement.

Part of the legislation deals exactly with that point.

Russia is a signatory of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, and they have violated every one of the principal commitments in Helsinki by what they have done in Ukraine.

But I want to move to the parity here with working with Europe, which I agree with, as we work with Russia.

this could only be done by the Assad regime. And, of course, Russia is supporting the Assad regime's use of this type of warfare.

What we learned with Iran is that we were able to be effective and bring Iran to the negotiating table because the United States and Europe worked together.

I think we have got an opportunity to work in a seamless fashion together with you to have the kind of outcomes that we wish.

I could not agree more that Russia has empowered Assad to do what he is doing.