I want to thank Senator Manchin for his passion on this issue with regard to opiates.

there seems to be a very different standard, depending on the community.

I wish to speak on the bill we are debating, the Water Resources Development Act. I will begin by commending the chairman of the EPW Committee, Senator Inhofe, and the ranking member, Senator Boxer, for their leadership on this…

In my State----we do not have roads, unfortunately.

I want to commend you for it.

Remember, most rural places in America you can get in a car and you can drive to.

Some said, well, they had the opportunity to just go to a local Native Alaskan health clinic, if you were a Native Alaskan.

I commend you again on your map.

I begin by commending my colleagues from Arizona. I couldn't agree more with them and what they were just talking about with regard to ObamaCare. Similar to Arizona, Alaska is going through the same thing. We are now down to one health…

It is very humbling because you will go to a small rural village in Alaska and you ask for a town hall with veterans, and there will be, you know, 10 or 15 Vietnam vets, combat vets, who come out to these meetings--great Americans.

as you can see, there is bipartisan support for this measure. I ask that all my colleagues support it now. I yield the floor.

I rise to support my motion to instruct in relation to the NDAA of 2017. In the past few weeks the President and the Secretary of Defense have made additional military commitments across the globe for our men and women in uniform, and we…

I thank my colleague from Iowa who has distinguished military service and just retired. We are honored that she is leading this colloquy today. I am honored to be here with some of my colleagues. Our freshman class sees this as a critical…

What are we doing to make sure to try to recruit younger Americans to, you know, be on the right side of the issue?

I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy for 30 minutes with the Senators from Montana, North Carolina, and Iowa. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Department of Defense Appropriations Bill

I ask unanimous consent for 1 minute to conclude this colloquy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank Senator Tillis, and he put his finger on it when he said it is personal. I think it is personal to all of us. Senator Ernst talked about it. She literally has her former colleagues, the troops she commanded, in Afghanistan right…

I thank my colleagues who bring honor to the Senate by coming down here and talking about this important issue. Those watching at home should be calling their Senators and telling them: Fund our troops. Fund our troops. When there are so…

last week we had a lot going on in terms of national security and foreign policy facing our country and, most importantly, facing our troops, facing our military. The President, the Secretary of Defense, the top leaders in the military…

my colleagues from Virginia and Rhode Island, for whom I have a lot of respect, have been on the floor talking about an important issue--what my colleague from Virginia called a ``today issue.'' Well, I would also like to talk about a…

I do not think, 'we do not want to violate any regulations,' but we also want to make sure that we understand the hierarchy here.

That is really, even if we lose, we win. Like there is no way to lose.

This is a pretty important issue and I know even Secretary McDonald has met with different Alaska groups.

Can you see it? Can you sympathize with the small business person who fought that, thought it was illegal, and then the Supreme Court came out and said it was illegal, and then the head of the EPA says, hey, too bad, it was illegal, but…

Because this bill has the potential of increasing the pool of these clinicians to serve veterans enrolled for VA health care, VVA supports enactment of this bill.