If you're willing to serve this country in uniform and you're willing to lay down your life to protect it, you deserve to be able to do that.

He needs to back off, because I will stand up and fight for our transgendered and all of our military men and women.

People are not talking about this issue.

I think that his tweet today made a lie of what he said last night.

This is very, very typical of this president who blunders forward in areas where he has no expertise.

I absolutely do not believe that, Anderson. We've had transgender people who have served in -- tens of thousands of them have served over the course of our military's history.

I would think this is about appealing to his base. It's certainly not about military readiness.

Our military men and women who are willing to die to protect the values enshrined on our Constitution deserves far better than this type of policy, especially one that's not been thought out.

I will be fighting on their behalf. And what I'm going to say to them and to the American people is that when I was bleeding to death in my helicopter after that RPG ripped through cockpit of the aircraft, and an American came to save my…

And so many more Americans, including our president, has never worn the uniform. And he just needs to back off but I will stand up and fight for our transgender and all of our military men and women.

I urge all my colleagues to support this amendment and yield back.

As Senator Duckworth said, our infrastructure is old.

This is going to be a problem for rural communities and communities that do not have the resources and the high tax base.

Ensuring that every Illinoisan has reliable Internet access to find a job, improve their businesses, or educate their children is a top priority.

I want to thank the Chair and Ranking Member for convening today's hearing and I want to thank the nominees who are participating in this important conversation.

I believe that this legislation would address your concerns about clarifying FCC authority when it comes to prison calling services.

Am I correct that in opposing the Commission's efforts to protect families and inmates from outrageously high rates for calling services, you are not endorsing astronomically expensive prices, rather, you simply believe that Congress has…

I do want to note for the record President Trump's budget actually eviscerates the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Office, including zeroing out infrastructure and small business funding and eliminating the…

Our nation's infrastructure is crumbling.

The President's budget proposal is a net negative for infrastructure investment, cutting nearly $150 billion from critical programs over the next decade.

Instead of creating jobs that boost local, regional, and national economies by rebuilding our roads, bridges, and water systems, President Trump and congressional Republicans made the conscious decision to prioritize eliminating health…

I intend to object to proceeding to the nomination of Steven Gill Bradbury, of Virginia, to be General Counsel for the Department of Transportation. ____________________

your willingness to aid and abet torture demonstrates a failure of moral and professional character.

I have no confidence that you are capable of carrying out that critical role.

your role in crafting the torture memos... should disqualify you for future government service.