Last year, we were told by GAO that improper payments amounted to about $144 billion--$144 billion.

I think we found out that there are like 5 million people on records at the Social Security Administration, where they are at or above the age of 112.

Tell us what the rules are going to be. Give us a reasonable amount of time and some flexibility, and just get out of the way.

we just rolled back some Dodd-Frank regulations because it went way too far.

One of the things that she wanted us to do was to focus on figuring out the right thing to do, not what was easy or expedient, but what was the right thing to do.

I will say in closing, for myself, this is a really important issue and I again want to thank Senator Whitehouse and Senator Sullivan for their great leadership on this, and our Chairman for holding this hearing and for Senator Inhofe's…

We, as a Nation, will need to invest in better waste management and recycling infrastructure to address challenges like this.

The root cause of all that, though, is the lives that they live in those three countries are miserable; and we are complicit in their misery given our dependency and addition to all kinds of drugs, narcotics.

We have to standardize this process so we can work at scale and we can innovate at scale.

I really want to say to Sheldon and to Dan, thank you for your wonderful leadership.

So, we should set a target of going from at least our 9 percent to what Europe is doing, which is around 30 percent.

The weight of the scientific evidence does not show that PFOA or PFOS cause health effects in humans.

Part of the root cause in solving that problem, all these people trying to get into our Country from our southern borders, is to help make sure that their lives are less miserable in those three countries; they have some hope of…

We have to explore and deliver on these standards.

This is important stuff to us in Delaware, and I know it is in other States as well.

Policies and actions must be guided by the best available science rather than fear-driven discussions.

The Federal Government cannot undertake this effort alone.

I think we have to be careful here when we are trying to develop policies that are going to ultimately enhance global sustainability.

The United States can then play a much stronger global role. We are now only recycling 9 percent of our plastics.

Cleanup efforts like the Delaware Coastal Cleanup provide hands-on opportunities for citizens of all ages to learn about this global problem.

I really believe that people don't understand the concept of the circular economy and we have very much a culture that is throwaway.

As Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Bipartisan Senate Recycling Caucus, along with my Republican partner, Senator John Boozman, I want to mention recycling is one such solution.

My amendment today builds on what we know to be a successful formula.

I want to ask unanimous consent to submit for the record a letter from environmental groups that are opposed to Senator Wicker's S. 2461.

I have long been a proponent of commonsense comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken immigration system.