He has requested that Congress make that change, and the President has acknowledged that that is a subject that is within the jurisdiction of Congress.

We've closed down 4,000 mental health inpatient beds since 2007 in this country.

That is not in the executive actions announced.

I support S. 1945, drafted by Senators Cassidy and Murphy and NAMI is a stronger supporter as well.

This bill is a pronounced step in this direction.

One of the reasons that you do focus on the issue of gun laws is because the research that you have looked at makes it pretty clear that States that make it harder for criminals to access guns have lower rates of gun homicide.

I deeply and respectfully urge this committee to move forward with this strong bipartisan bill.

That is simply a recitation of existing court interpretations of the underlying law.

I think this is one of our opportunities in 2016 to be able to move something substantive, something bipartisan, something that makes a difference on the floor of the Senate.

There will be those that call it patently unconstitutional.

I said that Holgate was August 5, and Shannon was September 18. Adam Szubin has been before the banking committee since April 16. He is a few months away from being before the Senate for almost a full year in a job that we can all agree is…

I thank Senator Shaheen for the question. I would hope that regardless of how any individual Senator voted on this deal, we would all be rooting for its success because success in the end is an assurance that Iran never obtains a nuclear…

Our priority is actually not to encourage local political change. Our priority is to commit just enough resources to stop Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for terrorists.

I do not think there is any evidence to suggest that the United States is willing to do things and send messages to the Afghans to telegraph that we are serious in any way, shape, or form about them getting serious about anticorruption…

If you believe in the limits of American power as a catalyst for change abroad absent a local commitment to do so, the last 15 years in Afghanistan are, certainly, proof of that concept.

next week we will mark the 3-year anniversary, for lack of a better word, of the massacre at Sandy Hook, CT. Senator Blumenthal will be joining me on the floor momentarily. I wanted to come to the floor to speak to our colleagues for a few…

I come to the floor today to congratulate my colleagues on passage of the repeal and replacement of No Child Left Behind, the Every Child Succeeds Act. In particular, I want to thank Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray. It is…

That variation of using an U.N.-authorized multinational force is something I think we should be thinking about more than we sometimes do.

Senator Chris Murphy has called for a nation-wide investigation.

It seems evident that the third of these is the only credible option--building tools for burden-sharing in the mission to uphold stability.

One of the weaknesses of current U.S. policy is that we treat these institutions or tools as if they are stand-alone entities.

reserving the right to object, it is my understanding that this substitute would require the Federal Government to go to court in order to stop someone on the terrorist watch list from purchasing a weapon. As a default, we should all agree…

if you really understand the fundamentals, the building blocks, of the religious perversion of ISIS...

I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 551 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration; I further ask that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motion to…

I am here to join my colleagues in our call to bring for debate and vote on the Senate floor a measure that is supported, I would argue, by probably 95 to 99 percent of my constituents, and that is the simple idea that if you are on a…