Mr. President, I rise today to commemorate the life of Senator John McCain along with my colleagues. John is an American icon whose legacy is known not only across our Nation but around the world. His belief in American exceptionalism was…

Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for yesterday's votes on S.A. 3705 and S.A. 3706 to H.R. 6157 so I could join the Secretary of the Air Force during her visit to Grand Forks Air Force Base in my home State. Had I been present, I…

We feel strongly that these languages are essential to the identity, well-being, and prosperity of the people of Alaska.

We should be talking about the increased cost of health care, and so if we could all just turn away from our politics for a minute and go directly to solving the problem, we would go a lot further.

I want to bring up first something you and I have talked about previously, and that is Veterans Affairs (VA) reimbursement for long-term care for our veterans.

It is disingenuous of this Administration to say they believe in preexisting conditions, protections in Federal law for preexisting conditions, when they are currently in court arguing that they are unconstitutional.

We need to spend every dollar critically, but at the end of the day, that is not going to solve our problem with this explosion of Medicaid costs.

I do not think anyone should put any blame. We had 13 years of inattention, but we have an opportunity today to take that first step toward solving this problem.

I want to publicly thank Ms. Verma for working with my office and working with me to talk about rural health care delivery.

This is very problematic.

there is an approach avoidance on what you guys do, and it just seems to me that when you have your boot on the neck of a bad actor, you should keep it there.

But one thing that gets absolutely lost in the back-and-forth on Obamacare is we should be talking about health care.

we have to have paper ballots.

So no one here should pretend that we do not have a problem.

This is a real problem.

This should concern everyone. There is no doubt about it. The question is can we afford it, and if we cannot, how do we solve this problem?

This sickens me. It sickens me that these children have been put in this position and in harm's way, and that we in the U.S. Government have responsibility for these children.

If this were a IV-E investigation of a State foster care system, they would fail, and you basically would withdraw Federal money because there would be inadequate protections for kids.