I want to thank you for your focus and your commitment to funding WIPP in a way that ensures proper maintenance but also safe operation because we cannot afford to have a deviation from the safe operation of that facility.

I think that draws just sort of a fine point on--we need to be doing everything we can right now to increase that deterrent value, because it's not being effective.

make sure we never have to fight a fair fight.

A strong, well-staffed Department of State is critical to the success of our overseas military mission.

I want to just get the best deal for the best product for the people who actually use it on the front lines.

Mr. President, as the Senate takes to the floor to debate a long-overdue, bipartisan solution for Dreamers--young immigrants who came to our country as children--I would like to tell you a story about one Dreamer in my home State of New…

the best way to avoid these kinds of problems was, having a methodical review for every dollar going out.

I think it deserves some oversight.

I am not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican. I am not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

I believe healthcare is a right, not a luxury. I believe healthcare should be affordable no matter your income, accessible no matter where you live, high quality no matter how you're insured.

The President's budget proposal continues the Republican obsession with repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would strip healthcare away from tens of millions of Americans.

I believe it's a tragedy that seniors all across this country have to choose between rent and prescription drugs.

So would you agree with the CBO's score--that the CBO said at the very least that Graham-Cassidy reduces Medicaid by $1 trillion?

The census can have a profound influence on the issue of voting accessibility, everything from a constituent's voting district to the availability of language assistance at the polls.

I would provide with their support a list of things that keep them afloat and the kinds of things that would go away under this budget.

I would like to invite you to come with me to New Mexico and we can go to the Navajo Nation.

Administering the census is a task so fundamental to how our government operates that our Nation's founders included it in the Constitution.

I wanted to make a plug, and I bet Senator Blumenthal will join me on this, a plug for the FTC working with state attorneys general.