My role is to try to highlight those challenges and to make sure that whatever decision is made addresses them as effectively as we can.

Fortunately, we find ourselves in a moment of budget stability, having passed an agreement in February.

If they move there, which some people indicate they might, would that be another sort of pressure point in terms of not only Jordanian but Israeli counter-reaction?

I continue to be concerned with the availability of aircraft and the preparedness of our airmen.

The President and our Republican colleagues are at it again, promoting economic policies that enrich the wealthy and the biggest corporations in our country. That will hurt middle class families. We saw it in the tax scam. We see it in the…

I think it highlights the fact that this administration has so far articulated no coherent policy for dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

With all due respect, that is not my question.

the United States Government is the leading humanitarian power in the world, and has been since World War II.

I am also particularly proud that in Rhode Island, we are helping to lead this effort.

the support for Israel has always been bipartisan. It is critical that it always remains bipartisan.

Without proper access to food and nutrition, children cannot attend school, men and women cannot work, and families cannot feed their children.

I want to begin by thanking the gentleman for yielding and for his many years of extraordinary leadership on not only Make It In America, but on the urgency of rebuilding the infrastructure of our country. Tonight, I think the American…

Jerusalem is and always will be the capital of Israel.

I strongly support recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the immediate relocation of our Embassy there.

I just want to point out that the President proposed and the Republicans passed a tax scam that rewarded the wealthiest people in this country and the biggest corporations. Eighty-three percent of that tax cut went to the top 1 percent. It…

There are instances where we need a large volume of food from the United States that we can inject into the system before the food economy collapses.

the U.S. stands with Israel. That remains as true today as it was before.

I am here for my 197th ``Time to Wake Up'' speech. My poster board is getting a little dog-eared, but we keep moving doggedly along. Last week, I spoke about corporate America outsourcing its lobbying to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce--a…