Mr. President, we continue to debate the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act, of course, is the effort we passed in the Senate to try to make America a better place for those who need health insurance. Our goal was accessibility…

Mr. President, it is only 17 days until the Department of Homeland Security of the United States of America runs out of funding-- the Department of Homeland Security. This is the Department we created after 9/11. We said: America needs to…

General Campbell, are these graduates able to effectively lead their own forces and pass on knowledge obtained from American trainers?

I believe we must do all we can to avoid a garbage-in/garbage-out situation with regard to our training programs in Afghanistan.

General Campbell, are graduates of our training programs able to comprehend our military values which include respect for civilian authority and the rule of law?

When we use the term dirty carbon pollution, we are talking about nothing other than carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide doesn't cause lung disease in children or asthma. Carbon dioxide hasn't been shown to cause children to miss school.

They are not talking about smog or carbon particles in the air, they are talking about CO2, carbon dioxide.

The Mississippi Development Authority says the minimum incremental capital cost to Mississippi of this rule, if it is implemented as it is written now, will be $14.2 billion.

I do believe the regulation we are discussing today is EPA's most blatant overreach thus far, and there have been a number of them.

extremely troubling issues have come to light regarding the VA and this specific facility, and I believe that Congress is going to have to act in a variety of ways to make improvements so that our veterans in Wisconsin receive the care…

It appears that there is a huge deviation from VA guidelines with regard to the treatment that you have uncovered and I think that is very disturbing and that we need to do more in followup to that, too.

We cannot turn our backs on what happens in Afghanistan. We paid the price for this before. We should not do so again.

I just do not understand why this administration does not understand that if we do what is presently planned to begin in three months from now, that we will see the Iraq movie again.

Building the capacity of the Afghan security forces is a key element of our Afghanistan policy.

I am very much opposed to the rule but I do think you need to really look at the reliability and the impact it is going to have and the significant impact.

These are the States who are rejecting this. These States have actually said they cannot comply with it and some of them will not.

10 million adults in the U.S. had a serious mental illness during 2013. That should not be lost on us.