The health of our oceans is critical to our economy.

Mr. President, I am here to give a report on behalf of Florida to the Senate. Senator Rubio and I were there all day yesterday in Miami and in other parts of South Florida, and we are preparing for what will be another Andrew. Andrew was…

We must redouble our collective efforts to rid and insulate this program from waste, fraud, and abuse.

Lifeline has helped connect millions of Americans to services--like voice communications and broadband.

The report should not be used as a political tool to eliminate the program or undercut its successes.

There can be no tolerance of waste, fraud and abuse in this important program.

This program has had strong bipartisan support throughout its existence.

I was shocked, visiting some of the agencies under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Committee, highly technical agencies, NIST, NOAA, NASA, et cetera, and what I had found with regard to one of those agencies right at the turn of the new…

Let me see if I can nail down a couple of more points for the record. What I've found is that the sea level rise that is occurring--and this is not forecast. This is not projections.

I'm pleased to report that last month, in the FY 2018 transportation-funding bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee included an increase in the PFC cap, from $4.50 to $8.

Eliminating it, I think, is classic definition of penny-wise and pound-foolish.