But, if we cannot control it in the military--and, if the VA, Medicaid, and Medicare would not be dispensing opiates like M&Ms...

The thing that we are fighting is drug addiction here on the private sector, and there is not a single person sitting in this room who does not know somebody in their immediate family or extended family that has not been affected by legal…

The United States will have greater success, however, in confronting a non-nuclear Iran over the next decade rather than an Iran with nuclear weapons.

I cannot believe the culture that we have today. When I was growing up, you got an aspirin or something and that was it.

So, that's why I'm afraid that, if we reject this deal, we will end up not with a better one, but with an Iran that continues down the path that it has been on.

I talk to some of these veterans. They cannot transition back in because of their addiction.

This is a subject I acknowledge is foreign to me.

I rise in strong support of the DRIVE Act. I commend Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Member Boxer for their bipartisan work on this bill that passed out of the Environment and Public Works Committee with a unanimous vote. A long-term highway…

Our coal industry is suffering in West Virginia because President Obama's regulations are artificially driving down demand for reliable and affordable coal. With power plants closing and home energy prices rising, our miners are suffering…

Few institutions are as powerful and as secretive as the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve's monetary policy impacts the prices every American pays at the grocery store; the ability of businesses to obtain the capital necessary to…

I am still particularly concerned about future spills in the Great Lakes.

Simply unacceptable. We need to step that up immediately.

It would create a plume that would likely stretch for 85 miles into Lake Huron and Lake Michigan in my state.

A pipeline break in the Great Lakes would be absolutely catastrophic.

I rise today to talk about a problem that each one of us--all 100 Senators--knows. In any gathering we go to, in our State or around the country, people are affected by drug abuse, whether legal or illegal. In our personal families…

all of us have challenged areas in our States. I have a county--one of the poorest counties in the country is McDowell County. These children have no chance whatsoever. It has the absolute worst statistics any child could be living in. And…

Right now I see no higher priority for the Forest Service than treating our forests to make them healthy again.

I know that resolving the challenges associated with the management of the O and C lands is something that Senator Wyden is very committed to.