I need to know that you are going to advocate for the HUD budget, and for me, that is a threshold question that you are not going to--

I would like your thoughts on Housing First, and I would like your assurance that you are certainly going to look at everything with new eyes, but that you appreciate the basic premise, which is that unless you put a roof over somebody's…

I vote no on behalf of the people who need mental health care. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Debate is not allowed during a vote.

We have a serious safety crisis on our roads.

I want to thank the junior Senator from Connecticut for his leadership on ACA. Since we arrived in the Senate together, he has been stalwart, not just on the many benefits of ACA but specifically on mental health and the benefits and the…

That is the first time the Senate has ever ended with that one. ____________________

I thank the senior Senator from Connecticut for his leadership on this and so many other issues on behalf of the people of his home State. Before I get into prevention as a policy issue, I just want to reiterate a process point. Here we…

the legislation I will introduce shortly focuses on a small sector of the Federal workforce. But there is a broader message that I would like to deliver as well today. There is something I want to say to all Federal workers: I have got…

I rise to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the people of Hawaii, it started as an ordinary sunny Sunday morning in December. Families were getting ready for church; others were preparing breakfast. It was…

So, long as it's not a government contract, where you're working with a subcontractor, which says, 'Our algorithm is proprietary. You're not allowed to--we just spit out our recommendation. That's what you pay us for.'

What are the tough, thorny, short-term public policy and ethical challenges that we're facing right now?

I want to commend Senator Whitehouse for his 150th climate speech. It takes a lot of passion, a lot of research, and a lot of focus to be willing to stay on one topic in the Senate for that many consecutive speeches. There are a lot of…

I ask unanimous consent that the time be equally divided between both sides during the quorum call. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I am here to speak on another topic, actually, and that is what we are about to do with respect to appropriations. This Congress was told by the majority leader that the Senate would return to the regular order, and I have no doubt he…

I thank the President pro tempore, the Senator from Utah, Mr. Hatch, for his leadership on this and many other issues. Healthcare policy can be a particularly vexing area for those of us who like to get things done because over the last 8…

If we're talking about 900 million individual records that are breached, it's not any longer about notification, it's about preventing the breach.

I think there's a tremendous potential for disparate impact.

I can't imagine that there is an issue larger than one that is potentially impacting 10 million Americans and their ability to, basically, participate in the economy.

today, September 19, marks the beginning of National Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, GEAR UP, Week, and I would like to recognize the meaningful work of GEAR UP in Hawaii. Since 1998, GEAR UP has provided…

I absolutely support the principle that people shouldn't be ripped off by being forced to rent a device.

the Commerce Committee...has been a bastion of bipartisanship, but not recently.

we ought to think through whether or not what we're saying is constructive and leads us to strengthen the institution of the FCC.

I hate conspiracy theories. I believe most of the suspicious, confusing, frustrating, or unknowable things in the world are the way they are not because there are 12 people in a room wringing their hands trying to figure out how to trick…

if you ask a person whether they think that there should be one standard, the assumption of the respondent in the poll is that it would be one high standard----not one high standard and one low standard.

It seems to me that one of the basic questions is, what is it that makes an ISP different from another Internet company?