The most important thing that we can do is to pass a multiyear assistance commitment to Ukraine.

2016 could be a turning point year for Ukraine.

Crimea sanctions must remain in place so long as the Kremlin imposes its will.

The worst mistake we could make is to concede that Russia's policy in Syria is tied to our sanctions regime in Ukraine.

I worry that onerous conditions upon our aid and the IMF's decision to do the same thing in some way plays into the hands of Russia.

We will keep working with Ukraine to do its part to implement Minsk.

We are just playing a dangerous game of chicken here, which is at some point their reserves run out.

I thank Senator Cardin and Senator Corker for how diligently they have worked over the course of the last several months, as both of them have stated on the floor, to make this sale much more palatable and to address many of the concerns…

But this year's budget, I think, flat funds 811.

I just want to thank you personally for your work, for your focus on many of our shared priorities.

we were building about 500 new units out of 811 with Federal dollars when I came to Congress, in part because of legislation that I helped write, where now, over the last 3 years, we built 7,500 units with Federal dollars

States like ours are just in tremendous budget crunches, in part because, when you don't properly house these individuals, the cost of inappropriate care, where it--be in emergency rooms or prisons, gets passed largely down to State…

Thank you very much for your visit to Connecticut about a month ago.

In the time that I have remaining, just wanted to talk to you about the Section 811 Supportive Housing program, what a tremendous success that program has been over the course of the last 3 years.

this small investment that we make at the Federal level saves an awful lot of money to the taxpayer at the State level.

This small investment that we make at the Federal level saves an awful lot of money to the taxpayer at the State level.

I am on the floor today to speak on the same subject, but before I do, I want to very briefly discuss two other subjects. Remembering Dylan Hockley First, Mr. President, I noticed online today that today would be Dylan Hockley's 10th…

So I understand the difficult tradeoffs you have to make, but we should all be cognizant of the consequences to U.S. national security.

Just as an example, one of those tradeoffs is that the World Food Program in and around Syria is cutting off aid to refugee families that do not live in the actual refugee camps.

the damage to the overall Federal Treasury, in the lost jobs, the lost tax revenue, the increased Medicaid costs, the increased unemployment costs, pretty quickly wipes out the savings to the agency.

This sort of has been a cause and crusade of mine for years, to put some teeth back into our Buy America requirements.

last Thursday I was on the floor honoring the victims of the mass shooting in Kalamazoo, MI, another shooting spree that left six people dead and two others injured, and on that very same day another shooting spree broke out in Kansas that…

we certainly have an interest in growing a domestic aquaculture industry

We are the first big State in the Nation to do that.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Madam Secretary, thank you for all of your work.