Connecticut has a long and historic involvement in shellfish and aquaculture and generally the commitment to the environmental treasures that are reflected in this important work.

today is a proud day but also a painful one for me. I am proud because I am honored and proud to join my distinguished colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Shaheen, and others on the floor. I was proud to join Connecticut organizations…

What we see in the proposed 2018 budget is slashing National Science Foundation spending by 11 percent.

These cuts specifically target your foundation.

The world community ought to be unified in responding and retaliating, or deterring and punishing, this kind of state-sponsored cyberattack.

I think a big part of that is going to be the adoption of it and the trust, more so than the technology itself.

I still do lament... if we were to broaden the scope of it.

So you would view teleoperation as having a role in the future of your vehicles?

Collision-avoidance technologies... have been proven. They are available.

You would all agree, I assume, that government does have a role to play in protecting safety?

I think there is a common thing that says technology is overrated in the near term and underrated in the long term.

I want to avoid creating another generation of cars that may be unsafe at any speed.

The Internet was the result of a partnership, a continuing partnership over many decades of private industry, academia, and the government.

Nobody is for overregulation or overinvolvement by government, but sometimes standards are necessary.

So that something as simple as AV technology, and I know, Mr. Mansuetti, you produce it, so you would agree, can help save lives.

I expect I will vote for a bill.

I think the military certainly has experimented and done a lot in teleoperation with UAVs and drones and all, and they work, and they are safe.

Secretary Mattis informed Congress: Long term CRs impact the readiness of our forces and their equipment at a time when security threats are extraordinarily high. The longer the CR, the greater the consequences for our force. So my…

we have heard some highly partisan and passionate speeches on the floor of the Senate and a lot of finger- pointing. The American people are done with the blaming and the finger- pointing; they want the government to be reopened. All of us…

we are in the midst of the Trump shutdown, aptly named for him because he is the one--perhaps the only one in America--who thinks it is a good shutdown. In fact, his head of Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, gloated that it…

The Southern Poverty Law Center has warned that social media has been instrumental to the growth of the alt-right movement.

the Russians will continue. They have an asymmetric advantage here.

I am disappointed by Google's written response. It essentially blew off my concerns.

I appreciate your being so forthcoming.

The VA has an administrative and moral responsibility to respond, and I am disappointed that it has not done so.