Planning a war without planning to secure the peace is a sure path toward future conflict and instability.

We need to do what we should have done years ago and pass a new authorization governing the conflicts we are engaged in today.

You cannot make foreign policy flying by the seat of your pants, especially when it comes to our men and women in uniform.

The 2001 authorization is too broad. It needs to be put out to pasture and scaled back.

The Constitution requires him to seek congressional approval for military actions.

The 2001 AUMF needs to be repealed and replaced by an authorization that is tailored to the threats that we currently face.

Mr. President, let me open my remarks by saying that from the very beginning of this ill-starred healthcare misadventure the Republicans have been on, Democrats have over and over again offered to help and to participate. Over and over…

Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by thanking the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch), my colleague, for yielding. It is an honor to join him this evening to discuss the cause and mission that is very close to my heart. As many of my colleagues…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in recognition of the 27th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law on July 26, 1990. This landmark, bipartisan civil rights legislation enables people with disabilities, including…

Well, look, I think what I've said all along, and which I think many Democrats have said throughout this whole process, we keep knocking on that door and being told you're not welcome.

For one thing, the work that the Intelligence Committee is doing by virtue of touching in so many places on classified information is never going to be as public as we had hoped.

The first thing, the very first thing the Republicans in the Senate did when they got in, like their first day was to choose to go the reconciliation option and slam the door on us and let us know we were not welcome.

Well, I think, you know, we're going to have a whole lot of seats and a whole a lot of members of Congress we're going to have a really good chance at getting replaced.

I ask unanimous consent to be allowed to speak as in morning business for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, to the disappointment of the American public, the world scientific community, and even to corporate giants like Goldman Sachs and Cargill, President Trump recently decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris…

When President Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, he used these alternative facts from that chamber- commissioned NERA report. Here is what Trump said: Compliance with the terms of the Paris Accord and the onerous…

We are looking at a potential economic catastrophe if we do not get ahead of this.

What we have here is the latest information from our Coastal Resources Management Council about sea level rise happening along our coasts.