A theme seems to be appearing that there is not a binary choice between war and diplomacy.

I think that we are all here, hopefully, committed to making sure that we fix this ecosystem.

If someone creates something, it belongs to them. They should be paid for it, and they should get to decide how it is used.

Thank you all, gentlemen, for the extraordinary testimony and again for your service to the nation. All have reflected the importance of diplomacy and also the multifaceted challenges we face. They are not simply in the military dimension…

the central challenge facing our nation is the reemergence of long-term strategic competition with Russia and China

Russia remains determined to reassert its influence around the world

we must not neglect other equally complicated challenges: North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile efforts

The proliferation issue is absolutely critical, and Korea, if it continues on its projection, raises huge proliferation problems.

China continues to threaten the rules-based order in the Asia-Pacific region

Mr. President, I begin today by adding a Rhode Island voice to the chorus of coastal communities around the country standing against President Trump's reckless and unwelcome choice to try to allow oil and gas drilling off of nearly all…

It includes over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts that are clearly going no place.

We have seen the Budget Committee become 100 percent partisan and zero percent meaningful.

We cost a fortune more per capita than any other industrialized country, and we have life expectancy comparable to Chile and the Czech Republic.

I completely disapprove of and will fight to my last breath to prevent attacking Medicare and Medicaid and other Federal programs and taking benefits away from people in order to achieve savings.

We have a ridiculous budget process, and as a result of that, we end up with ridiculous budgets.

It was cooked up in the laboratories of the Koch brothers and a bunch of other creepy billionaires who want to remake America in Ayn Rand's image.

Nobody has been more eloquent than Chairman Enzi in understanding how broken our existing budget process is.

I appreciate very much the Senator's words of goodwill, and it aligns very well with the note of optimism that I want to open on after last night's vote. Last night's vote provoked the first real conversations--the first real, bipartisan…