This is important to us.

My concern is that you get these companies that come in that buy up a drug manufacturer, add no value, invest in no research, but simply crank up the price for speculative purposes.

Mr. Speaker, every single day, seven children and teens are killed by gun violence; 40 more are shot and survive. Most of the time, the incident could have been prevented if the gun involved was unloaded and locked away safely. Mr…

What we are seeing in this current administration is the presentation of judicial candidates the lack of qualifications and have views well outside the political norms.

We have a President who has nominated--you know, we all understand Presidents nominate judges that reflect their political views.

I think that it is important to understand this request in the context in which we are currently living.

Submitted by Hon. Sheldon Whitehouse, a U.S. Senator From Rhode Island

Mr. President, I am pleased to be joined by Senator Blunt in reintroducing the Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, by 2030, there will be a shortage of up to…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize LGBT Pride Month, a time to celebrate the diversity of the LGBT community and honor the strength and courage of LGBT people throughout history. I was thrilled to attend the annual LGBT Pride Fest this…

Mr. President, first, let me say what a pleasure it has been to work with Senator Crapo on these issues. Our situation is pretty simple. We have a U.S. Navy that generates spent nuclear fuel through its operations; we have a U.S. industry…

First, let me thank Chairman Alexander for his support and assistance in getting us to this point. He has also, until I rotated off the HELP Committee and onto the Finance Committee, been my chairman on the HELP Committee. Both in his work…

Thank you, Mr. President. Climate Change Mr. President, as 2010 dawned, in what now seems like another era of political time, the U.S. Congress was poised to tackle the problem of climate change. The House of Representatives had just…

Mr. President, first, let me thank the senior Senator from New Jersey for those remarks. It was a privilege and a pleasure to be here to hear them delivered. We had a hearing in the Judiciary Committee this morning with a representative of…

I am trying to get that information to us.

You are truly telling me that you are not going to answer this question, I should go knock on a different door in the same administration?

So I want to be able to call up your legislative staff later on and say, actually, the Secretary agreed to give us this in the hearing.

trade wars are not good; they are very damaging. And for the State of Washington, they are very very damaging.

I would like to see what the economic projections are as to how that plays through.