I sit before you today to urge Congress to allocate sufficient additional Federal funding to States.

first, I ask unanimous consent that Laura Malenas and Kevin Craw, who are both fellows in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the Senate's consideration of the NDAA. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

I ask unanimous consent to speak about my amendment No. 4299. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

not a lot of Americans know this, but we are at war in the Middle East. We are part of the Saudi-led coalition that is in the middle of a very dangerous and catastrophic war inside Yemen. The Saudi-led campaign inside Yemen began on March…

Senate Resolution 479 introduced by Senators Markey, Durbin, and Murphy, which call for targeted sanctions on President Kabila's inner circle

I call on the administration to hold accountable more human rights abusers in the country.

It is in our interests to make it clear to the Russians that... it does not prevent those countries from being eligible to join transatlantic institutions.

But, you are absolutely right that it is essential for us to continue to be strong supporters of Georgia's aspiration.

Why are we not more aggressively engaging in tools of diplomacy that can help us, hopefully, have Russia understand that there are consequences?

There have been many members of the Senate who have been disappointed at the level of military assistance we have provided.

I worry that the message that Putin must be taking from our responses is that his limit-testing aggression and opportunism is the right approach.

I believe that pulling out of Open Skies would send the wrong message to our friends.

I think they are ready, and it is an important signal that NATO still has an open-door policy for those that are ready.

about a week ago, Josh Cortez was found shot and lying on the pavement in Hartford's South end. Josh was 22 at the time. His girlfriend, who was 23 years old, was found in a parked car nearby with a gunshot wound. She was rushed to…

10 years ago this month, voters in Montenegro went to the polls to determine the future of their country. These voters were faced with a single question: ``Do you want the Republic of Montenegro to be an independent state with full…

The deepening ties to India has really spanned three different administrations from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

It is a wonderful counter-narrative to this mythology that exists about American global weakness.

I thank the Senator from West Virginia. He has been a tiger on this issue, and I hope we will answer his call. The epidemic is no better in Connecticut, where most of our cities are on track to see a doubling of overdose deaths this year…

I don't think we understand how deep and broad this problem is, and I'll take ownership of it in Connecticut.

I think there's a very important and appropriate role for the Department of Education to play in setting the guardrails for the financial accountability.

the Federal Government is in the business of education policy because we're in the business of civil rights.

This is about supporting plans to create the climates and atmospheres in schools to make sure that those situations never arise.

This conversation about accountability that, of course, I think is incredibly important is not a conversation just about what happens inside the school.

without some Federal requirement that kids of color or poor kids or disabled kids be treated fairly, local political dynamics are going to accrue to the detriment of those kids.

We included language in this bill, bipartisan language, that would require State plans to address the use of what the bill calls aversive behavioral interventions.