I will be brief. I also want to make sure I don't take advantage of the personal privilege I have as a United States Senator, but I am going to anyway. I want Senator Coons from Delaware to pause for just a second. I want to thank every…

It is a great piece of legislation. And Senator Warner and I had one of the provisions in that bill, which is very important to us, on home health care.

I thank the Senator from Montana and urge every Member of the Senate--Republican, Independent, Democrat--to cast their vote for our veterans, cast their vote for our country, and cast their vote for David Shulkin to be the new Secretary of…

I want to make a statement that has not been heard much around these Halls or these Chambers in a couple of years. But on February 7--this month--the Veterans' Affairs Committee reported by a vote of 17 to 0 the name of David Shulkin to be…

I would also like the Record to reflect that I have never been to Montana. I have been to Delaware, but I respect anything either one of these Senators would say about any physician in Delaware or any physician in Montana. They have never…

I ask unanimous consent that these answers to four questions that have been raised in the last few days in the media be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Four…

Syria was a war of proxies--plural, proxies, a lot of them--which I thought was very true.

The absence of knowing exactly what the cyberthreat is, is the equivalent to that period of time.

I ask unanimous consent that following my 5 minutes, the distinguished senior Senator from New Hampshire, Mrs. Shaheen, be recognized for 5 minutes; and following Mrs. Shaheen, the distinguished whip of the Republican Party, Mr. Cornyn, be…

I come to the floor with a labor of love before the U.S. Senate. We are talking about confirmations of people for Secretary positions on the Cabinet of the new President. We are talking about all kinds of things. We are in a budget period…

My only point is, at some point in time, you probably have to make the decision that you are going to have to have some military presence over a protracted period of time if, in fact, victory is important enough to you to send troops to…

We need to make that declaration at some point in time.