With $18 billion in unspecified cuts to the domestic side of the ledger, how can we make a decision if we do not know what the specific cuts will be?

We have been at loggerheads and have done nothing about it for years and years and years and years and years now.

We need to support it. We need to be a part of the innovation and leadership around the world on developing nuclear power.

No concessions are implied with respect to climate change on this, Mr. Chairman, but it will help.

I hope that the Committee will take into sincere consideration the home State concerns of Senator Harris and Senator Gillibrand.

U.S. leadership abroad in this day and age depends not only on our ability to defend ourselves from physical attack, but also from cyberattack.

This thing is coming out of the House at us. It looks like it is a complete mess.

At least speaking for Rhode Island, we are now calculating if that mess were to pass into law, we would lose $30 million in Medicaid.

If it does, I would like to recommend that we follow the model that you led, that I thought was extremely successful on the Elementary and Secondary Education bill.

wasting time by one of the departments as a result of a patently false statement from the President seems to me should be something we understand and try to prevent in the future.

I think we are being asked to make serious reductions in a number of different areas because of cost constraints

Countering Russia's malign activities is a matter of national security.

It seems to me to be not only irrational but insane.

And Supreme Court Justices socialize with this small group, and then they go and they tender--render decisions that give that small group immense political advantage.

What could be more involved in politics than to open this ocean of dark money that flooded into our politics?

Do you really think that a Supreme Court that decided Citizens United does not get involved in politics?

They set up an array of benign-sounding front groups to both organize and conceal their manipulation of our politics.

And got deeply involved in politics, did they not? They changed the entire political environment, the entire political ecosystem with one decision.