I just want to say how much I appreciate your leadership. You have been committed to Indian issues your entire career in the Senate, even more so as Chairman.

Madam President, I come to the floor to express my support for the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. This is bipartisan legislation. The House passed this bill with 31 Democrats voting for it. Last week, Senate Republicans welcomed the…

According to the Indian Health Service, childhood trauma is disproportionately experienced by Indian children.

The complaint that I hear from so many veterans is they feel the VA is a restrictive bureaucracy whose first instinct is to say no.

This is an issue that needs and deserves our attention.

How long does it take through this to get recognition, for a company to get recognition?

I think it is a problem and I think it is something that we need to talk about and actually do something about.

I continue to be concerned about the VA's over-reliance on medication as a means of treatment within the VA.

A veteran who is having suicidal thoughts should never be turned away because of bureaucratic red tape.

That is really what I wanted to know.

As has been stated, 22 veterans commit suicide every day in the United States. To say this is unacceptable would be a gross understatement. It is nothing short of a tragedy.

And they need to be treated very differently, which I do not think we are doing right now.

Right now the United States uses more opioids than the entire rest of the world put together.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

this is something we have got to get a handle on, and I think you probably realize from listening to our questions, our constituents are very frustrated with the way that much of this has been approached

that flexibility is going to be important going forward, and it is something Congress is going to hold you accountable for.

What we are looking for is a time frame. You know, are you talking about 1 month, 2 months, 6 months?

Mr. Speaker, I thank the sponsor of the legislation, the gentleman from Utah, for the excellent job that he has done in preparing this legislation and bringing it to the body. If you were to go with me into my district in Tennessee--19…