I do not think that Russia wants to militarily own Ukraine. I think they want to create confusion and clouded title around a significant enough portion of the country.

I thank the leader for his remarks, especially with respect to the new addition of the healthcare bill. It is a disaster for Americans. It is immoral. It doesn't work. It doesn't address any of the problems that remain in the underlying…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank all of you for your testimony and the VA and all of the staff you represent.

I would argue that there's no reason to limit the care to those who are in emergency situations, nor to limit it to 90 days.

If confirmed, I am committed to implementing all congressional laws, including Section 1112 of FDASIA.

I commit to working with my colleagues at CMS and you on this issue.

These parents want their children to be safe, and they also want their children to get the education they were promised.

I hope that you will see that it is your role to depoliticize that process to the extent that you think it is politicized rather than to elevate the politicized process.

Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, confirming a Supreme Court Justice is one of the if not the most important responsibilities we have as Senators. It is a vote we cast knowing full well that the tenure and the influence of the…

Diversity of views is healthy on campuses, not with respect to sexual assaults, not with respect to a recognition that the problem exists.

This is a place in which diversity of opinion should not be acceptable.

I have a great deal of respect for my friend from Pennsylvania, as we have worked together on a number of issues, but forgive me if my blood boils when I hear my Republican friends talk about breaking precedent in this body when it comes…

That is an absolute gift to the Russians. They project their power not just through military means but through propaganda and energy bullying, through outright graft and intimidation.

I worry that sometimes when we are talking about this administration's policy on Russia, we selectively read comments and actions from the administration to create a policy that we want to be true but is not really true yet.

I am on the floor to speak in favor of the pending business before the Senate--to allow for Montenegro to join NATO as a new member. I have been a proponent of this move for a long time, having spent time in Montenegro and having chaired…

I would agree with Senator Cardin that we need to invest in our own diplomatic capacity, which I think is vital for wielding all those tools.

I think you agree that that is, ultimately, an important question but not necessarily one that should cost hundreds or thousands of U.S. lives.

So our hearings that month were U.S. strategy regarding Iran, prospects for engagement with Russia, more effective strategy for counterterrorism, return and resettlement of displaced Iraqis.

I think we need to put behind us the tendency we have had, I think over the last couple of decades, to sort of rule in or out this or that policy tool as a starting point.

at this hour, we still don't know what the House of Representatives is going to do. They are amending and changing and modifying the reform of one-sixth of America's economy under the cover of darkness, trying to secure the votes necessary…

the House is still on schedule to vote tomorrow on a reform of one-sixth of the American economy that the American public has not seen. This is, frankly, unprecedented--this rush job, this attempt to jam through a massive rewrite of the…

I ask unanimous consent that Dr. Laura Willing, a health fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the year. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

We would hope that you would be an advocate for the programs that the Department of Labor funds.

If we don't have the workforce pipeline necessary to staff the supply chain, those jobs will go overseas.

We are not talking about it in the Health Committee.