The final thing I would indicate and then I will turn it to Senator Schatz...

Today, as we celebrate Small Business Week, I rise to recognize, commend, and stress the importance of small businesses of this country. I have the honor of serving on the House Small Business Committee every day, and I am reminded that…

I come to the floor this evening to talk about winter storms that hit Kansas and surrounding States over the weekend, destroying crops and killing livestock. We face many challenges, and the Senator from Utah just described a serious…

we have tried for as long as I have been in the United States Senate to get the VA to hire a physician at a CBOC in Liberal, Kansas.

Hopefully it will lead beyond just a discussion, but really substantive steps forward in terms of how we address these issues.

So I will submit my questions in writing, Mr. Chairman.

I think that decision was made before you arrived in your current position.

What is the relationship between--let me do it this way. We are going to spend some money on infrastructure.

When we visited in Europe with you earlier this year, we had been to France and Germany, both concerned about intrusion by Russia into their elections.

How would you describe the change in climate from that point in time to today?

Has there been a consequence of our reassurance efforts in a response from Russia in how we would have expected them to behave or how they are changing their behavior?

What more needs to be done to reassure our allies and to deter Russian aggression?

this afternoon, the President will be signing an Executive order to increase accountability within the Department of Veterans Affairs. For several years, I have been calling on the VA to hold bad actors within the VA accountable. In my…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to address the Senate as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability to Veterans Act

And the veteran apparently has the option of saying, 'No, I don't want to be referred'?

The issue is it's not being done----

The suicide prevention team is there in that moment of acute crisis.

Is the veteran receiving--is it your experience that when you talk to those individuals, that they have received the appropriate care they need during the timeframe from which they made the call on the hotline to the time that you actually…