Mr. President, I thank both Majority Leader Reid and Chaplain Black for allowing Rabbi Ginsberg to open our session with what I thought was a very beautiful prayer challenging us to action and to conscience. Just a word about Rabbi…

Madam President, before I address the issue of college affordability, I want to send my condolences to the families in Oregon, another community ravaged by a school shooting, the 37th of 2014, the 74th school shooting since Sandy Hook…

NATO ought to have that discussion in advance so then when it happens, NATO has an answer ready.

refusing direct assistance to a democratic government facing what is unquestionably aggression is a mistake.

Aside from the significant defensive enhancement against any new 'Crimea,' this step would signal Moscow that the United States and NATO are going to defend alliance territory.

I reject the notion that Russia was pushed into this by NATO's expansion east.

Madam President, I come to the floor to speak in support of Sylvia Burwell's nomination to lead our efforts at HHS and to follow up on the comments of her great friend Senator Manchin. I would like to add two points to what I think was a…

But is article 5 still a sufficient protection for countries along Russia's border?

This should be a NATO-blessed deployment, and NATO states should provide a second battalion package in each country.

we are more likely to gain his attention if we stop 'self-deterring' ourselves.

Thirty-one thousand people a year die across this country from gun violence. That is 2,639 a month or 86 a day. I have tried to come down to the floor every week--a couple times a month at the very least--and talk about the voices of those…

Mr. President, having just come down from the chair, I wish to briefly respond to the remarks of the junior Senator from Alabama, who engaged in a pretty stunning and broad denial of science for about 15 minutes on the floor of the Senate…