When it became clear that Afghan nationals who risked their own lives to help the United States in our mission were not being protected from Taliban retribution, was there ever any indication from the Trump administration that they were…

Restoring the North Atlantic right whale populations requires a coordinated effort between the Federal Government and industry stakeholders.

It is vital that terrorist organizations like AQ and ISIS, which have been diminished due to the sacrifice of American service members, our NATO allies, and other partners, never regain the capability to launch a large-scale attack on the…

These falsehoods are being amplified by irresponsible politicians and fringe media figures, many of whom gladly take financial support from the oil and gas industry at the same time.

The former President did not say that this was a reasonable step to protect U.S. service members and our Afghan allies; he, in fact criticized President Biden for moving back the deadline.

Our ports are the backbone to our economy. Any way to grow our shipping capacity and ensure our supply chain is strong is a smart and important investment in our economy.

the United States is the largest humanitarian donor, allocating more than $15.8 billion since Fiscal Year 2012

accountability does not begin in January 2021. There is a larger story here that if we are going to draw lessons for the future and how to do better, we have to be mindful of.

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

One of the things that my understanding did not happen in advance was the Department of Defense did not share its full list of individuals that could be SIV-eligible with the Department of Homeland Security.

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

Now that the War is over, we must continue to be proactive in ensuring that terrorist organizations in Afghanistan never develop the capacity to threaten the American homeland again.

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

I think we have a problem of an unfortunate circularity between wealth and political influence.

Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience.

One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals.

we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan for whatever means are at our disposal.

So this combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.