This is a horrific environment.

I would say, really, with a smaller campus like that, you all should handle--I mean, to have the horrific problems you are having with sexual assaults, and then not even an atmosphere where they feel like they can go anywhere and report…

To all three of you, I do not know if you realize what we as Senators, the responsibility we take as far as nominating these young people.

I rise today, as I have risen so many times, basically for all of us to understand that we have the greatest country on Earth, a superpower of the world. If you want to know the backbone of the United States of America, look up in the…

I do not need to remind them there is no place for sexual assault anywhere in our society, let alone in our United States Merchant Marine Academy or any of the other academies.

I am outraged, truly outraged, by these reports. I think we all should be ashamed of them.

Senator, I think on restricted reports it is.

I would like to add my voice to the many that you have heard in the past and today who have deep concerns, obviously, about the actions and the accusations of sexual harassment at the academy.

Yes, Senator. We do. We explicitly talk about retaliation as being totally unacceptable conduct.

I rise today, as I have on a number of occasions in the past, to express the urgent need for action to protect the retirement security of our Nation's coal miners. Because of bankruptcies that have decimated the coal industry, we have lost…

I come to the floor today to express my strong support for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Few individuals over the last century have impacted the American legal discourse…

I have not spoken to one CEO of a major utility that believes that they have the right mix in their energy portfolio.

My concern is reliability, and I think this first question will go to Mr. Cauley.

So basically our whole... those senators who have been really on energy efficiencies that we have been trying to do here is all for naught when it comes down to cost?

You would be concerned about the reliability, putting all your eggs in one basket?

Could Russia have made a difference in the outcome if they wanted to?

Could they have basically changed the outcome of the election?

I'm not sure that my United States Senate desk if I jump underneath of it and hold my head will protect me this time, and that's putting it mildly.