Sex trafficking is an evil that affects every community across America.

There are security issues. As we saw with Equifax, our most sensitive personal information can be vulnerable.

We can make consumer protection a core value of what we do in fintech.

The states have long played a key role in preventing waste, fraud, and abuse, and so this move is an important one.

I have no doubt that the Lifeline program provides a critical service for many low-income Americans, including my constituents, but I think we need an honest assessment of how best to deliver such services to those who need them the most.

if you want to help individuals who need universal service, then we ought to help individuals who need universal service rather than have a booth somewhere saying, 'Free Cell Phones.'

What does that one mean?

Audits are helpful. We will implement your recommendations.

there are two reasons why every Member of the Senate should vote against confirming Marvin Kaplan to the NLRB. The first is that he is just not qualified. The NLRB is the Federal agency that enforces our labor laws. It protects the rights…

you know, late this afternoon, around 5 o'clock, a number of Republican Senators indicated their unwillingness to support the so-called skinny bill, which would rip healthcare from 16 million people, according to CBO, and increase health…

would the Senator yield for a question? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming has the floor.

I make a point of order that the pending amendment violates section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.

Do you commit to resisting any pressure from the administration or elsewhere to compromise the integrity of the Department's data and economic analysis?

nobody in any administration, Democrat or Republican, should be prohibited on the basis of politics from using whatever words they want to describe the world as it is.

we just took one of the most reckless legislative actions in this body's history. We are blowing up the American healthcare system, and we don't even know what comes next. I want to be clear. The Senate has never before voted on major…

the world as it is, is one in which climate change is a fact.

These important sources of economic data would also face steep budget cuts. This proposal has many of us very worried about the integrity of our data.

The Jones Act has been the law of the land for 97 years, and I am on record as being a firm supporter of that law.

how much time remains? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 5\1/2\ minutes.

This is a bipartisan issue. It's important to me for obvious reasons.

Sure. But from the land-based trash, is this--are these landfills that are along the coastline and trash that ends up in the ocean, or is this the dumping of land-based trash into the ocean?

the Senate Republicans are about to take one of the most reckless actions in Senate history. They are going to vote to blow up the American healthcare system and do I don't know what next. I want to be really clear about this. Never before…

It's just covered in trash.

We also knew that these problems could be solved with a nationwide, interoperable public safety communication network.

Today, we are closer than ever to making that solution a reality.