Michael Bennet

I recognize that we passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which is now law.

I want to commend Senator Menendez of New Jersey for his leadership in the effort to promote these transparency reforms.

The United States cannot conclude agreements with Japan, Indonesia, or the EU that leave issues facing our American exporters without remedies.

I am deeply concerned about China's growing influence across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Congress's role in U.S. trade policy is defined by the Constitution of the United States.

I urge the Committee to send him to the floor with a strong bipartisan vote.

I have the chance to introduce, with Senator Hickenlooper, this exceptional nominee.

My legislation with Senator Young, the PASTEUR Act, would incentivize new antimicrobial drug development.

I know we have done a lot in this committee on mental health, but we have to do more.

I introduced with Senator Wyden, Chairman Wyden, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act.

Fifteen years after the law was written, the insurance companies, the big insurance companies, are still finding ways to drag their feet on carrying out the parity law with respect to mental health.

Senator Crapo and I talk often about this, and we intend to continue our mental health work in this Congress, again in a bipartisan way.

I strongly support this approach, especially as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to steadily implement the laws that are already on the books.

We have a youth mental health epidemic in America, a mental health crisis in America.

I have said from the beginning that when the Federal Government leads on flagship health reforms in Medicare and in its key programs, we know as sure as the night follows the day that the private sector is going to follow.

I would love to be able to go home and have a farm bill listening session where people are saying, 'We are actually seeing improvements on the ground' because of what we are doing together here.

I think with your leadership we really have a chance to make a dent in this, and anything that we can do to help support that effort, we want to do.

People are really interested.

I have had farm bill listening session after farm bill listening session. I think we have had 26 in Colorado so far.

I think we need to look into what the regulators do, exactly what happened to create the problems that these two banks that failed faced.

That was a terrible deal that was struck between the Obama administration and Mitch McConnell.

If we want to work together, we could actually close the gap.

The deficit and the debt have not gotten any better over that period of time.

I think with your leadership we really have a chance to make a dent in this, and anything that we can do to help support that effort, we want to do.

I would love to be able to go home and have a farm bill listening session where people are saying, 'We are actually seeing improvements on the ground' because of what we are doing together here.