Mr. President, I am back for my weekly ``Time to Wake Up'' speech, which, given the theme of the week in Washington, it is going to focus on the health consequences of what is going on in climate change. It is timely to do so because just…

Mr. President, I come to the Senate floor, once again, to urge my colleagues to work in a bipartisan, transparent fashion to improve our healthcare system and help bring down costs. Over the weekend, members of the American Medical…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, as co-chair of the Career and Technical Education Caucus, I rise in strong support of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. This bipartisan…

H.R. 2353 aligns CTE programs with industry needs, promotes work-based learning, and supports career counselors while strengthening Federal investment in CTE. I encourage my colleagues to support students, businesses, and their local…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the latest plan to gut the Affordable Care Act. Senate Republicans, as has been reported, just unveiled their draft of their healthcare bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which was…

Mr. President, I come weekly to the Senate whenever we are in session to give my ``Time to Wake Up'' speech, talking about climate change and, quite often, talking about the climate denial campaign that prevents us from taking action and…

Mr. Speaker, today, June 21, is National Asking Saves Kids Day, or ASK Day. Every 6 days in our country, a child under the age of 15 dies from an accidental gunshot. Each year, more than 600 children sustain nonfatal injuries from an…

As a proud resident of Rhode Island and proud resident of Providence Plantations, I thank the Chair for the recognition. Mr. President, I want to join my colleagues in expressing strong opposition to the Republican efforts to repeal the…

Mr. President, today, along with Senators Brown, Tester, Blumenthal, Kaine, Duckworth, Warren, Baldwin, Franken, Klobuchar, Cortez Masto, Van Hollen, and Menendez, I am reintroducing the Military Consumer Enforcement Act to further…

So we're, again, about 18 months away from election. We have to be able to develop, not technical infrastructure, but an organizational infrastructure that could react, maybe on very short notice, to discovery that actual votes were being…

Well, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the gentlemen, Mr. Faso and Mr. Collins, for their leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, in my district, the 23rd Congressional District, where we sit on the border of the State of…

Are we taking it serious enough? I guess that's the issue.

Mr. President, I am pleased to follow the Senator from Minnesota, as because of him I had the chance to be on the HELP Committee during all of those hearings--all of those dozens and dozens of Republican amendments that took place during…

All of the signals are suggesting that he's already cooperating with the FBI, and may have been for some time. This would be just another bit of leverage for the prosecutors to make sure that he was cooperating and giving truthful…

Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, June 15, 2017, I was unable to vote on rollcall No. 308: Passage of H.R. 2579, ``Broader Options for Americans Act.'' Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

Madam President, I understand Senator McCain has come to the floor. I will yield to him as the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Amendment No. 232, as Modified Mr. McCAIN. Madam…

Madam President, I appreciate my colleague's sense of humor. Transparency in Business Ownership Madam President, the United States of America has suffered an unprecedented intrusion into our American Presidential elections. In January, our…

If I could add, your first question about the cuts and the proposed cuts on the State Department, in my opening statement, I characterized it as unilateral disarmament.