Supporting Ukraine at this moment means... giving them means to defend their democracy.

Ukraine gave up 1,800 warheads, one-third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, to help secure peace in post-cold-war Europe.

Putin's military excursions are always the prelude to the centralization of his personal power.

I think there really is a real concern in Moscow that casualties could have an impact.

We are obsessed with this question of providing arms to the Ukrainians, and it matters.

I'd just point out the genesis of the law to just remind folks, this was bipartisan at the outset.

We really believe that... an aerospace focused manufacturing innovation center should be one of the next that's authorized.

President Reagan said, upon signing it, that there are "certain forms of ammunition that have no legitimate sporting, recreational or self-defense use and, thus, should be prohibited."

90 percent of Americans support the notion that everyone should have to prove they are not a criminal before they buy a gun.

I think it's absolutely transformational.

I just wanted to make sure that there's still going to be a commitment to this aquaculture research, both in Connecticut and in Washington.

We really believe that, as you have this tsunami of aerospace purchasing coming...

It's a moment in time where, if we capture the best available technology, there's a mountain of work to be had.

If our forces were there taking fire from an ISIL position and needed to advance on that position to eliminate it in order to defend our troops, I assume that that action in that time and space looking like an offensive action would still…

I agree with Senator Boxer, they are straightforward and very helpful.

A lot of attention has been given to this phrase 'enduring,' not as much attention given to the juxtaposition...

I thought your answer to Senator Kaine's question was definitive in that you worry, as I know the President does, that a large-scale deployment of troops could become recruiting fodder for extremists as our presence in Iraq did over the 10…

I do not think this President is going to authorize this, but this is a 3-year authorization, so the next President will get the chance to decide differently.

I think that we are just going to be debating the amount of fuzz that is created here.

to her high school classmates it was pretty clear what kind of person Kayla Mueller was going to turn out to be. As a teenager she took up the causes of the disenfranchised and the dispossessed, such as when she joined a campaign to stop…

Here's a pretty stunning one from 2006. In States that had higher bars for exemptions, they were 50 percent less likely to have whooping cough outbreaks.

this is the first time I have come to the floor to speak on this issue while the Senator from Iowa has been presiding. Over the last 2 years, since the mass tragedy in my State, in Sandy Hook, CT, I have come to the floor once every week…

It probably makes sense to make sure that the best information is given out.

I'm certainly in favor of eliminating such philosophical exemptions.

If we want to protect the vulnerable, like Dr. Jacks' children, then immunization needs to take place to do that.