Mark Begich: “I have been traveling the last week here and wherever I've gone, there's no question wherever and whoever you talk to…”

I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?

We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us.

That is actually an old model. That is a model that we are trying to get rid of.

It has been an honor to be here.