I would like to thank you and Ranking Member Kinzinger for calling this hearing, so that we can have an opportunity to discuss one of the most important relationships in the world, the transatlantic alliance.

Recent proposals from the Trump Administration in the last year to remove several types of military model firearms from the U.S. Munitions List under the jurisdiction of the State Department, and move them to the Commercial Control List…

President Donald Trump is regarded widely in NATO capitals as the alliance's most urgent and often most difficult problem.

The United States is committed to our partnerships with Europe, and Congress will continue to support the transatlantic alliance.

Our Nation's export control regime is a critical tool for ensuring that the weapons, materials, and technologies that we produce for military and commercial purposes, particularly those that can inflict deadly harm, do not end up in the…

I am proud to co-chair the Foster Youth Caucus with Congresswoman Karen Bass.

It is a frightening phenomenon known as unregulated, child-custody transfers, or UCT, also known colloquially as rehoming.

Do you agree that climate change poses a threat to our readiness, to our ability to achieve military objectives?

I continue to remain concerned about overreliance on SOF, and we want to make sure we get that balance right.

On another topic, I am concerned about the resilience of Navy and Marine Corps bases, in particular, due to the effects of climate change and rising sea levels.

We are just going to be throwing good money after bad if we are repairing bases or building new bases and not factoring in the changing weather patterns and seriousness of climate change.

Mr. President, it is my great honor and pleasure to be joined on the floor today by my senior Senator from Rhode Island, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Jack Reed. We are here today on the Senate floor to…

Mr. President, let me commend Senator Whitehouse for his consistent efforts to illuminate and discuss the problem of climate change, which affects not just the United States but the entire world. It is a pleasure to join him and once again…

This report belongs to the American people. It was done on their behalf. They have a right to see its contents as do members of Congress that we can do our work.

I think it would be very valuable to the American people to have Mr. Mueller come before the Judiciary Committee in public, and walk the country through the report, walk the country through the findings he made, the evidence he collected…

I don't think it makes sense at all to allow one of subjects of this investigation to have a sort of sneak preview and decide what the American people get to see.

Oh, absolutely. Look, the chairman of the committee Mr. Nadler has already said if the full report is not provided to the committee, that we will issue a subpoena to obtain the report.

The important thing is the American people have a right to know what the special counsel found.