I join with my colleagues today to give the country a sense of the scope of this epidemic. We have tried every means to move our colleagues to action, but in remembering the names of people who have been lost, it is a reminder that there…

I thank Senator Sanders for the question. This is incredibly important to understand. There was great consternation in the beginning of this civil war, when the United States, under the Obama administration, was beginning to support the…

I thank Senator Sanders and Senator Lee for allowing me to step in and say a few words before we have a short colloquy about the resolution we are bringing to the floor. I brought this picture to the floor before, and I hesitate to keep it…

I hope we rise to the moment before us and get something done, over the course of the next week or two, to try to make this country safer. I am glad to be joining the President in a few hours to hear more about his thoughts on how we can…

It certainly didn't sound like today. Again, I'm glad that he's endorsing, you know, the bill that I wrote, but it is just an incremental step forward just to try to make the existing background check system work as it's intended to do.

Yes, that's an insane idea that will make our schools less safe not more safe. It's a creation of the gun lobby.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has been there, he's been there especially since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary just a little over five years ago.

That this happens nowhere else other than the United States of America. This epidemic of mass slaughter, the scourge of school shooting after school shooting. It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as…

The anti gun violence movement has been growing by leaps and bounds since Sandy Hook. The gun lobby, the gun industry has had a head start on us about 20 years when it comes to political organization, but we are catching up.

Well right now Congress is owned by the NRA.

as we speak, there is a horrific scene playing out in a high school in South Florida. Turn on your television right now, and you will see scenes of children running for their lives--what looks to be the 19th school shooting in this…

As a parent, it scares me to death that this body doesn't take seriously the safety of my children.

It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but it's a consequent of our inaction. We are responsible.

We want to respect the privacy rights of adults, but we also want to make sure that if a doctor feels it's in the best interest of that child...

I do believe the relationship is the most important factor in getting people to accept that this is helpful to me...

I am very concerned that the Department of Defense is trying to pull the cover over data that we all use.

As has been mentioned, things are not going well today in Afghanistan.

We spend all this time regulating colleges on things that do not have to do with the price of college when, to most families, that combined with whether they get a job afterwards is the most important thing to them.

I think we should change that formula.

But the Federal Government needs to make sure that it provides reasonable subsidies for students to attend high quality institutions and it does not.

The U.S.-backed coalition controls less territory than ever before.

I wanted to broaden out the conversation that Senator Hassan started about how you build affordability into regulatory accountability measures.

Insurgents control more than ever before.

I think this is the most important discussion in the context of higher education reauthorization, getting the accountability metrics right.

If we simplify the regulation of colleges and got rid of some of the weeds but made sure that they were paying attention to outcomes, I think that would make it a lot easier to allow for a little bit more freedom of innovation underneath.