If it's hitting home in Alaska, if it's hitting home around the world, we should not be paying zero attention.

Mr. President, I am truly dismayed by what we have seen in this Chamber over the last couple of months with respect to the Senate TrumpCare bill. We are expecting to take a vote tomorrow on the motion to proceed, but at this point, our…

Innovative clean energy solutions to reduce emissions and stave off those disastrous effects are vital to me.

Warming, acidifying, and rising oceans endanger our Rhode Island coasts.

the President's budget is very inconsistent with the bipartisan support for our national laboratories.

climate change is real and that something needs to be done about it.

One of the things that we are learning, as you know, is that billions of tons of plastic is going into the oceans.

We are headed for a world in which there's actually more plastic waste mass in the ocean than there is living fish mass in the ocean.

But if in fact Congress has the ability to limit who and where and maybe something else, doesn't it make sense that the President of the United States should share with Members of Congress what that plan is, what that strategy is?

But I think most of us understand the American people are very concerned about authorizing a President to take us into another war like Iraq and Afghanistan.

the 2001 AUMF needs to be repealed and replaced by an authorization that is tailored to the threats that we currently face, not the threats of almost two decades ago.

I think they are relatively easily differentiated.

not doing a new AUMF is an abdication of our responsibility and our duties

It is up to Congress to reassert our role and consider a new authorization for the use of military force.

the missile strikes, the shooting down of a Syrian Government plane, and other actions that the Trump administration has taken have seriously ratcheted up American military engagement in Syria without congressional input or authorization.

I think it shows that even within their own Caucus, there are some concerns about this.

I am extremely concerned by the escalation of violence in Syria in recent months and by the extremely broad and, in my view, incorrect interpretation that this administration has taken of its authority to take military action in Syria.

So don't we have to first have a plan and a strategy from the President that says, here is what we will do to defeat ISIS?