Michael Bennet

Under my leadership, if confirmed, OCR will seek to protect every student regardless of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity, from illegal sex-based discrimination.

There is agreement from the witnesses that a jail is a pretty lousy place to administer addiction treatment.

Addiction affects the entire family. When women are adequately supported and given the tools for recovery, they recover.

In my state, in Colorado, especially in rural parts of the state, there is no more access to addiction treatment today than there was 10 years ago.

I mean, 50,000 people a year are now dying, and we really haven't responded.

The reason why we are paying $1 in for every $3 we are consuming in Medicare is largely because of Medicare Part D.

I hope we can do that in a way that is not infected by the idiotic politics around healthcare that we have had over the last 10 years in this place.

The Administration is then going to break the President's promise to not touch Medicare and Medicaid.

On the floor this week, disgracefully, is a tax bill that would reduce that 18 percent to an even lower number.

This Congress has disgraced itself year after year by not being able to pass a budget.

I am not going to touch Social Security and I am not going to touch Medicare and Medicaid.

He would pass, quote, 'One of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.'

He would deliver, quote, 'Giant, beautiful, massive tax cuts.'

He would eliminate our debt, quote, 'Over a period of 8 years.'

Success in this field will depend in part upon Congress maintaining the robust, but flexible, regulatory system.

Our goal was to create more regulatory certainty at the FDA so that innovative breakthroughs can reach the patient as soon as possible.

Five years ago, we passed Breakthrough Therapies on which I worked with Senators Burr and Hatch.

Thank you for working with Senator's Burr and Hatch on establishing the Breakthrough Therapies pathway.

I share that sentiment and believe there is an opportunity for the United States to be that leader.

In Colorado, over 700,000 people live in rural areas, and by 2018 about 40 percent of them will be over the age of 65.

I think we should be passing Alexander-Murray right now.

I used to say in Colorado that when I read the majority's opinion in Citizens United that it was like reading a seventh grader's American government paper.

I think you've put your finger on something very important, that in a fake news world, liberal education becomes only all the more important.

Today, we have a President who every day, day after day, attacks the free press in America...

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the first object should be to keep that right...