I think the RFS works for Iowa. I think it works for America.

Is there something that we should be doing here in Congress to make sure that we don't revert back to that old way of just following the ideology rather than science?

I know you have made a commitment. You said you are going back to blocking and tackling the fundamentals of rulemaking.

How can you explain these actions when it is clear that these two industries have enormous potential for growth?

I probably wore my Do Not Mess with the RFS button to the White House.

I think I particularly appreciate the fact that you sent people to the coal fields to understand the impact of what those regulations were doing when 86,000 coal miners lost their job during the Obama administration and no one paid…

I enjoyed hearing the remarks of my fellow Senator from Missouri. I wish Sam well in his next deployment as a military liaison, and I thank him, as well, for serving our country. Children's Health Insurance Program I come to the floor…

No, there's not a person up here, Democrat or Republican, that doesn't want to help people that are in severe pain, end-of-life pain, chronic illnesses, cancer. We're all fighting for that.

We're down to the point now if you go to the hospital... if they say, 'Listen, I'm recovering, I'm proud of it...'

Well, I think you can look for us to be very aggressive on working to be more encouraging to you either regulatorily or through the legislation to make sure that we--

this is truly a bipartisan problem. So this is not a Democrat/Republican problem that we have here, and it's a killer.

780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone painkillers between 2007 and 2012. Now, mind you, we only have 1,800,000 people; that's all we have in our State.

The current situation is unacceptable, and we need more than tough talk from President Trump to address this.

this is a scourge that we have.

It would seem to me that it would behoove our country to take a position that we are going to produce so much domestically, knowing that we can, just for the defense of our own nation, for the security of our nation.

I believe the Department of Energy's research will help set us on a path toward reestablishing domestic production of these critical minerals.

This epidemic is an emergency. Every day, 175 Americans die from opioid overdose; yet, the administration has been shockingly silent.

It's long past time for this administration to get serious about this crisis.