But it is also a consequence of your very successful integration of mental health services with physical help services that has allowed us to make those great gains.

I have asked for a moratorium on discharges for misconduct with respect to individuals who have been diagnosed with PTSD or TBI.

I have the same pride that Senator Collins does in representing the Navy's first submarine base in New London, Connecticut.

We have committed through the Appropriations Committee process along with the Navy to continuing the two Virginia-class submarines, build a year.

But you sort of describe a chicken and egg problem here in that if you train up a counterterrorism force today, ISIL may not be a big enough problem that they would concentrate their force there and they will go after somebody else.

We do not have the luxury of time, you are right.

There are 22,000 veterans out there today just since 2009... who have been discharged for misconduct.

we are really starting to see some great public-private partnerships on that campus.

It feels a little bit to me like the shale discussion today, which is that we made a big bet on shale and gas and oil here.

You have painted a picture in which in 2016 Russia will have very limited choices with which to continue to keep the operation going.

I think we are all very touched and moved by Senator Fischer's remarks and the thoughts of the entire body go out to Sergeant Hansen's family and those he left behind. I am on the floor today with no better news. We all woke up just days…

It's not really any good to have a Federal education law if it's not also a civil rights law.

What do you think about the need to give the Department of Education some new ability to intervene a little bit earlier?

I appreciate your focus on this.

manufacturers and retailers in the private sector who have attempted to lead on this issue of gun safety technology have been regularly blacklisted.

The takeaway from the massive infusion of money that we put into Ebola is not that that is a failsafe way to attack these epidemics...

Contrary to popular opinion, we are spending less than 1 percent of our Federal budget on foreign aid, including health programs.

I think a lot of people in this country take for granted the public health infrastructure that exists nationally and at the local level.

Senator Warren was making a very persuasive and passionate case for the need for robust domestic funding to try to get ahead of these crises.

we want to help people in far off lands, but we are really doing it as part and parcel of our national security strategy

We would not be supporting a longer sort of proxy kind of effort. That is one of the reasons why I say to you we think it is important now to get to the table and negotiate.

It is much more important to take chances, to take risks on diplomacy.

I will try to do my part as well.

That is a smart investment. I know you would want to spend more, if you could.

I think at the root of your answer is that the alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia requires us to come to their aid when they feel threatened.