the elimination or severe cuts to critical State aid and grant programs... are really troubling.

I think they are doing an incredible job with truly limited resources, but they really need more support.

It just seems to me a totally false choice to leave a border inviting and open, relatively open.

As my friend Senator Harris said, we will fight hackers with hackers.

We can and should secure the Southern border and also secure our other land, sea, and air borders as well.

How concerned are we about that and about our capacity at that point to be able to offset what we expect China to be doing?

I appreciate the challenges that the Navy has, given Congress' failure to address the budget issues.

I rise today to join my colleagues to discuss the heroin, fentanyl, and opioid crisis that has devastated communities across our Nation. I want to thank the Senator from West Virginia for giving us the floor today and for his continued…

There will be. If I could ask one final question because not only is this effort in the Senate happening behind closed doors, but initially it excluded women. Women are more than 50 percent of this country. We have particular needs when it…

In New Hampshire, we have the second highest overdose rate death rate in the country.

I was also very disappointed to see that what appears to be a zeroing out of the countering violent extremism section of your budget.

Those numbers came out while I was speaking on the floor, because I was talking about the first House-passed bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. What the Senator from Illinois is telling me is that the numbers for the bill they passed…

if my colleague will yield once more, last year we passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which appropriated $1 billion--$500 million this year and $500 million next year--to address the heroin and opioid epidemic we are having, and in the…

Well, that was going to be my followup question. In New Hampshire, we have the second highest percentage of overdose deaths in the country. We lose more people in New Hampshire to deaths from overdoses of opioids and fentanyl and heroin…

I am deeply concerned by warnings from leading health insurance companies and State insurance commissioners that the Trump administration is now deliberately undermining the Affordable Care Act, leaving insurance plans no choice but to…

I am very concerned about what I see in this budget that would dramatically cut preparedness grants for states and local communities.

I am particularly concerned about these reports in light of both the current Federal court injunction preventing implementation of the refugee portion of the President's executive order.

If I could just add one more group of folks who are going to be affected by this bill that passed the House several weeks ago. That is our veterans. We have millions of veterans in this country who get their healthcare through Medicaid. We…