It seems like it would have significantly reduced our leadership and our credibility on the issue of refugees...

I am asking, is that undermining our ability to be a leader in this crisis?

I hope that we can get assurances from you that in your administration of highway grants, you will protect the integrity of the process and not allow political calls to be made and political threats to be made to influence that process.

We have seen a rather unseemly spectacle recently which was a member of the Cabinet telling a Senator that they would be punished in grants and in programs in their home State for voting the wrong way on a completely unrelated matter.

Rhode Island is looking at 9 to 12 feet of vertical sea level rise by the end of the century if we continue to do nothing here in Congress.

I think in the long run, if you find this becomes politicized, you will find support for the program dramatically decreasing.

We need to fix this.

It is ridiculous for somebody to be able to go from Woonsocket to Attleboro and have it not picked up across the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border.

I just want to see it more of a national model.

It is bonkers that a mom and a dad may not know that a 22-year-old or 24-year-old child has been in and out of the emergency room for overdose.

You've got to catch them.

We shouldn't have to wait around for that.

Mr. President, today, I am introducing the Corporate Management Accountability Act, which request each publicly traded company to disclose its policies on whether senior executives or shareholders bear the costs of paying the company's…

Last election cycle, there were several reports of robocalls being made to voters falsely telling them their ballot would not be counted unless they updated their voter registration status.

Do you understand that the Senate has its own independent oversight responsibility here and that we are not an adjunct to the EPA ethics office?

Well, that sounds like a no with regards to the Senate.

And will you provide the materials to us so we can engage in that oversight?

Would you provide the Committee a list of the firm's pro bono work so that we can make an assessment of whether or not pro bono clients ought to be covered by the ethics pledge?