Ratification of this treaty will ensure the United States can protect our national interests in the deliberations of the International Treaty Governing Body.

Consideration of treaties is one of the critical duties the Constitution assigns to the Senate, and I believe we need to take that duty seriously.

I just think as we look at the big picture, these are tools that we need to look at.

I am not sure what could be worse than a blackout where we are handing people a sandwich and a bottle of water and giving them a map.

I serve on the Armed Services Committee, and we have Iran testing ballistic missiles right now. We have North Korea testing ballistic missiles.

Had that not been passed, we would have seen some----tumult in the market this upcoming year.

Since the law was passed in 2010, the country has had over 74 straight months of job growth with more than 14.6 million jobs created, and the unemployment rate has been cut in half.

I believe that the Affordable Care Act is working. Millions of Americans, including tens of thousands of people in New Hampshire, now have access to affordable health care coverage.

I do think there are changes that we should be looking at that we can make that would improve it.

Just yesterday, the National Health Interview Survey released estimates that showed that 9.1 percent of Americans are currently uninsured, and that is the lowest uninsured level on record.

Is it not?

But let me explore that just a little bit further because it seems to me that we are now more willing to provide arms and equipment to opposition fighters, but it does not seem to be having the kind of positive impact that we would like.

But one of the things I also heard I think all three of you agree on is that until we remove Assad, the fighting is going to continue.

So what are you suggesting that would be more effective than what we are doing? Increasing the amount of assistance that is going to those groups?

I mean, I am not in favor of putting U.S. troops on the ground there, but how do we accomplish that end of putting greater military pressure on Assad if we are not willing to do anything that is actually going to do that?

I think the United States should do much more to accept Syrian refugees, and I think it is disappointing that we have an election cycle that seems to be inhibiting that in the way that it is.

So I think we need a campaign where we are all speaking with one voice about the people that are getting treatment, that treatment works, that more people are getting treatment and surviving than are dying by suicide.

I am a co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional task force to combat the heroin epidemic, and we now have over 80 bipartisan members.