Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I am fully committed to not using non-commercial airplane or helicopter travel--as a steward of the taxpayer funds.

These are not small violations, these are giant gaping violations of the parity law.

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I agree that there is a significant difference, but let me speak in defense of guidance.

I do not believe there is any legitimate explanation. I believe that kind of disparity in the treatment of African-American children would be, on its face, a violation of Federal law.

I would beg you and I would beg the Department of Labor, use the authority you have to make sure that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are treated the same as people who have cancer diagnosis and orthopedic diagnoses.

I say to Senator Wyden, I don't want to be too heavy about this, but everybody shouldn't assume that the way in which we run our country just continues on forever. Democracy is unnatural. We don't run other parts of our lives by democratic…

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I was paying attention to my social media feed, and I have seen that Senators on the Republican side are starting to announce which way they are voting. I saw that Corker is a no and Collins is a yes. I…

we're going to make your life a lot harder if the legislation that has been pending throughout the year becomes the law

Maybe there's not legislation on this, Mr. Chairman, but just potentially the opportunity to use a bipartisan bully pulpit to make clear to the insurance companies that this is in their best interest to ultimately pay for these alternative…

it's very hard to confront this epidemic when we are threatening to pass health care legislation that would remove $800 billion from Medicaid

You think President Trump is taking these actions in the goal of making the Affordable Care Act work better?

Is your testimony here today that this is all in service of an effort to make the ACA better?

Experience in the private sector should not be disqualifying.

I just think it is strange.

you're hearing our frustration about the way in which this tax bill has turned into a healthcare bill in the last 48 hours.

You're hearing our frustration about the way in which this tax bill has turned into a healthcare bill in the last 48 hours.

my colleagues, cholera is a truly awful way to die. It is a manmade disease, a man-caused disease that this world could easily eradicate from existence. You become so dehydrated, you vomit so much liquid, your body dispenses so many…

We are concerned that the President of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national security…

we are grieving yet again today another horrific mass shooting in a church in Texas--over 25 dead, others still clinging to life. We were barely past our stage of grief as more than 50 people were shot dead and 500 were injured at a…

whenever a Higher Power is looking down on us as we move through our daily lives, I imagine that He probably doesn't see political borders. I imagine He probably doesn't care much about the distinctions that we create to tell the…

last week, we voted on a judge who felt it necessary to sign up for a lifetime membership with a political organization in order to get his nomination forwarded back before this body. The judge we voted on last week became a lifetime…

I just wanted to make sure that we understand the range of authority that the President has today with respect to potential military operations in the Korean peninsula.

I rise today to talk about the dire humanitarian situation in Puerto Rico and to challenge this country to end a century of discrimination against the Puerto Rican people. While the fleeting media attention may have waned, the desperation…