It is vitally important that we support our military veterans and their families.

I introduced legislation called the Senior Scams Prevention Act with Senator Bob Casey to combat continued and increasingly complex attempts to defraud one of the Nation's most vulnerable populations, our senior community.

the opioid epidemic literally keeps me up at night

I think it is in fact time for the FTC to investigate these mechanisms to ensure that children are being adequately protected.

We must hold companies accountable for their data practices.

I appreciate the technological challenges, and I think it's very easy--or, it's easier, maybe, to track how we're doing with nuclear weapons development, with technological developments.

If we look at history, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard during the 5-year span of World War II, they produced over 70 submarines.

This bill seeks to ensure retailers, financial institutions and wire transfer companies have the resources to train employees to help stop financial frauds and scams on seniors.

The capacity concern is going to become greater in years to come.

What I would urge you all to do is when a recommendation, even if you haven't finished the complete review, seems like there's an obvious recommendation out there, that state legislators could act on immediately, get that recommendation…

We have to not only get to the bottom of what happened but make sure that we take steps to ensure it never happens again.

Thank you.

It's 2018 in the United States of America and nobody should be worried when they come home at night that their house is going to explode, nobody.

We lost one precious life and we all know that several others were hospitalized or injured.

We are going to make the Merrimack Valley gas system safer than ever and we're going to be here working with you to meet these commitments.

So what you're telling us is that there are models out there that could be used that could help prevent this kind of incident from occurring?

We want to offer our deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of Leonel Rondon, the young man who died because of an explosion.

According to a 2016 GAO report, PHMSA has not implemented one-third of its mandates.