But are we in jeopardy of the system basically not being able to provide reliability?

Thank you, Mr. President, for recognizing me, and I want to thank the chairman of the HELP Committee, the Senator from Tennessee, who has in the Senate made a very passionate argument on why we should be passing the bill that contains the…

I feel in many respects like a fish out of water on this.

I don't think there is any question that people that are getting health care and medical benefits that that is a good thing for them, but how do we get there?

I have been coming to the floor every week for quite some time talking about an epidemic that we all have to fight through, and that is the epidemic of opiates--drug abuse. This is prescription--legal--drug abuse. We have come to a crisis…

He said it 22 times. I have no authority to deal with this immigration issue, but then he just went ahead and did it.

On June 23, my home State of West Virginia experienced some of the worst flooding in our State's history. Here is a picture of a damaged home in Elk View, in Kanawha County, West Virginia, very typical of what was seen during the flooding…

I saw the value of NATO.

Canada basically has been sliding by with Americans carrying them.

We will not trade any potential cooperation in a place like Syria for letting go on the pressure we're exerting on Russia over their actions inside Ukraine.

We ought to be pushing the Canadians and the new Prime Minister towards a much healthier defense budget.

If Germany would take the lead, it would make such a difference.

I rise today to emphasize the importance of the MILCON-VA and Zika conference bill. As a member of the conference committee that crafted this report and a member of the subcommittee that drafted the Military Construction and Veterans…

on June 29, 2016, the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up S. 3117, the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriation Act, 2017. During the mark-up, the Senator from Oregon offered an amendment to strike…

I fail to see any strategic rationale for the withdrawal of 1,400 U.S. troops while the security situation remains, in the President's own word, 'precarious.'

I think NATO is so important to us and our success and our defense of our country.

But States with natural gas are also into recession.

It doesn't surprise me at all that now the EPA is pivoting from the fact that jobs weren't created that there's no temperature increase.