A big ethics cloud now hangs over the National Labor Relations Board.

Do you understand that you must recuse yourself in any matter in which your former law firm, Morgan Lewis, represents a party?

In my view, staff is not good enough, Chairman Powell. Fed Board members are supposed to make the big decisions, and Fed Board members are supposed to be accountable for these decisions.

I rise today to call on President Trump to nominate a Director for the Indian Health Service. There are many critical issues facing Indian Country--economic development, infrastructure, protection of Native lands, respect for Tribal…

In a large sense, it lets us see how many opioids are being prescribed.

My view is we do need data, and we need the data in order to inform better decisions.

The advantages to collecting this data in e-prescribing are not only how we use them from a public health point of view.

We need to have both a strong military and a fully staffed State Department to best defend America and its allies.

The U.S. military is one of the largest consumers of fuel, and TRANSCOM's operations in particular are highly fuel-dependent.

As I understand it, refueling operations are governed by something called a bilateral acquisition and cross-servicing agreement.

if you do not spend the money, you cannot support the research.

a ground war on the Korean Peninsula would be devastating to our long-term strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world.

Our technological superiority is not guaranteed in the future. We have to fund these programs today because they are the seed corn for our technological advances in the future.

In other words, we have been helping and helping a lot.

Russia is hellbent on undermining democracy.

We've got to be very sensitive about what they're trying to steal from us; but, on the other, we've got to continue and even, I believe, ratchet up our investments.

I think we need to think much harder about the role that DOD plays in future hurricanes because we know they are coming.

We can sit on our hands and let the Russians interfere in our elections, or we can be proactive.

The contractors need to know that the Navy expects them to protect their workers if they're going to get taxpayer dollars.

the Trump administration's policies are causing the United States to be left behind.

I remain concerned that our recruiting system is so focused on recruiting for the military of today that we're not effectively targeting the best talent.

Long-term strategic competitions with China and Russia are the principal priorities for the Department of Defense.

Reducing use of our fuel and exploring renewable alternatives is not just about the environment.

The Yemeni people are suffering, and this is a humanitarian crisis.

I have no illusions about Vladimir Putin. I think he is a thug and a bully.