Money laundering is a massive problem. The United Nations estimates that between 2 and 5 percent of global GDP--that is about $800 billion to $2 trillion--is laundered through the international banking system every single year.

It funds terrorists. It funds human traffickers. It funds crime syndicates.

just yesterday, the Republican-controlled Congress passed a massive tax giveaway that will shovel truckloads of money into pockets of giant corporations and the superrich, while it leaves working families behind. And that is just the…

today is a terrible day. It is a terrible day for millions of working families in this country. They just want Congress to work for them. It is a terrible day for people who just want to get on with their lives and not have Congress cost…

2 days ago, the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Leonard Steven Grasz to a Federal appeals court. This is a man who is so aggressively ideological that he earned a rating of ``not qualified'' from the American Bar Association. The ABA…

What can the United States do to push back against Russian and Iranian assertiveness and try to set the conditions for a political settlement that is in our interests and in the interests of the Syrian people?

I think this conflict and humanitarian crisis in Yemen is breeding more extremism in the region and continues to put us more at risk.

As we've been talking about over the past few months, local forces trained and supported by the United States-led coalition have retaken former ISIS strongholds in Mosul and Raqqa.

In June, 47 senators voted to disapprove the sale of United States precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia.

It's been Russian support for Assad that's prolonged this crisis.

we are in the middle of a historically important debate here in Washington. Republicans have hatched a partisan proposal behind closed doors that would shovel a trillion dollars in tax giveaways to giant corporations and the wealthy while…

We all know that traumatic brain injury can have devastating, lifelong consequences for our servicemembers and our veterans, and I am grateful for the work you are doing in this area.

I was very glad to get an amendment into this year's defense bill that requires the Pentagon to begin a longitudinal study of the blast exposure that our servicemembers experience.

I also want to note that my amendment requires that the Pentagon consider the feasibility of a blast exposure log, analogous to a servicemember's jump log for airborne operations.

This makes it difficult to conduct serious research on the therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana.

It is clear that making progress on the opioid crisis means putting resources into treating mental health disorders.

But this is really important, and I really do appreciate your holding this hearing, Mr. Chairman. This is critical.

Yes, that is really a stunning, stunning number.

My view on this is that we owe it to our servicemembers, anyone who is put in harm's way, to have the best possible equipment.

I think we need to do more and that is why I have called for an additional billion dollars of funding in next year's budget.

It is legal, but if drug companies have influence over which drugs these charities help patients buy, then under current law, it would be illegal.

We have to find ways to bring down the cost of prescription drugs and the National Academies recommends that the Federal Government negotiate prices directly with drug companies. I agree.

I support strengthening those disclosure rules. I have written legislative language to do it.

We have to get better at this. Anything that has a name of the 'Valley of Death' is not good, in terms of acquisition of new, cutting-edge technology.

Frankly, it didn't even come close, and that's why today we're reintroducing the National Biomedical Research Act, which provides $50 billion in new funding for the NIH and for the FDA.