Thank you, Mr. President. Let me join my friend Senator Crapo in congratulating the leadership on both the Republican and Democratic side and the leadership on the banking committee for bringing this bill before us this morning. It is…

Mr. President, we are entering into a new era in which five men in the Supreme Court are going to get to make the decisions about what kind of health care you get as a matter of right, living under the protection of the laws of the United…

We have had a string of these Grandparent Scams in Connecticut, along our shoreline, which is the reason that I have had some interest in this issue over the past several months.

Given the fact that you are only prosecuting where you see volume, given your limited resources, it seems like an imperative to make sure that local law enforcement is communicating up the chain to these databases and to the FBI, to the…

I know we have some other colleagues on the way down to the floor to speak, so I will be brief. I just want to join Senator Blumenthal and thank him for his tremendous leadership, as he noted, going back to his days as Connecticut's…

I guess if the measurement is levels of testosterone and bravado, he is winning.

Madam President, last week Target stores announced that they were going to initiate a new policy in their stores across the country. They were going to politely ask all of their consumers to refrain from bringing guns inside their stores…

I just think that is an enormously important distinction, because I do not really care if he thinks that he is winning according to his terms.

It is really hard for us to represent our Nation's interests if we do not have an ambassador on the ground.

This is not a new topic for this committee, but Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and military activity in eastern Ukraine has brought a new sense of urgency and focus to this debate.

I do think, and I hope that you will point out, the curious position that Europe continues to be in, which is to ask vociferously and aggressively for U.S. shale gas and then be totally unwilling to develop their own resources.

What really is at stake is a competition of two systems, our liberal societies and Putin's ideas.