What types of actions would the Department of Defense consider to be acts of war in the cyber realm?

What are we doing to protect our critical systems--like the electric grid and transportation networks--from cyberattacks?

I think there is not only a powerful argument, it's virtually incontrovertible.

The messages of intolerance and persecution and extremist violence I think can bring us together.

I thank my colleagues for the vote we will take in a very short time on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act known as CARA. This legislation holds great promise to help families and communities combat the opioid epidemic that has…

I share those concerns about the power of our private sector, financial and communication companies.

I come to the floor today to speak, along with a number of my colleagues, about groups that have spun a web of denial and to fight back against the regressive, fallacious, and dangerous rhetoric of climate change deniers. They would…

We absolutely intend to comply with the FAST Act and use those dollars for investments there.

Unfortunately, some of the ideas that we've seen proposed are, frankly, half-baked, harebrained notions that will never come to fruition.

I sent a letter to Charter with serious concerns about the legal and privacy implications.

I hope, speaking for Amtrak, as you do now, that you would never go through a community like Old Lyme or any other where there was such strong and well-merited opposition.

It's not just spending, it's an investment, and it moves the economy, creates jobs, as well as improving transportation.

I would very much like to work with you on this issue, and as the FTC Chairman, you certainly helped to make the FTC the primary champion of privacy in the Federal Government.

there is often overlapping and disparate responsibility for enforcement of privacy protections.

I would hope that you would follow, or at least heed and respect, your customers' views.

There was also, parenthetically I should mention, a public outcry from consumers, consumer advocates, and lawmakers, including none other than Congressman Edward Markey.

I thank my colleague, Senator Merkley, for his very powerful arguments for improving this law. I wish to speak about the GMO labeling act. But before I do so, I wish to speak separately about concerns that are on the hearts and minds of…

the Senate is presently on the verge of approving a measure that is supposedly a compromise to provide for GMO labeling. I want to express my thanks and respect for the principal authors of this legislation, my colleagues Senators Roberts…

We're in the midst of the biggest refugee crisis in our lifetimes, certainly since World War II.

I think that the focus on NATO is very well justified.

If it is a threat to the effectiveness of NATO, it's something that we'll have to address before it reaches crisis proportions.

I strongly agree with colleagues who have supported effective, real measures to confront the spreading toll that Zika is taking around the world and, I assume, will take an even greater number and magnitude in this country. But we need…

I applaud Senator Blumenthal for introducing this much needed legislation that would clarify that servicemembers and veterans cannot waive their substantive or procedural rights under USERRA.

'expand the requirements for reissuance of veterans' benefits in cases of misuse of benefits by certain fiduciaries to include misuse by all fiduciaries, [and] to improve oversight of fiduciaries.'

I was proud to introduce the FRAUD Act (Fiduciary Responsibility and Accountability for Unpaid Debts) with my colleagues, Senators Brown and Moran, to address the misuse--I think it is rampant--of VA benefits.