The best answers are likely to be found when many people are asking questions.

If our health care system is being cheated, that has consequences for all Americans in the form of higher premiums and higher costs to Medicare and Medicaid.

The system is rigged in a lot of ways and this Committee is right to open an investigation into drug practices.

It is time for Government to step in on the side of the American people to stop this extortion.

Federal agencies need to coordinate----

I'll be sending a letter to the DEA with Senator Markey to request that the agency clarify these regulations.

Fighting this epidemic will take smart, creative ideas like the efforts of Chief Campanello of the Gloucester Police Department.

We would like to see improved coverage (both in terms of scope and parity); improved access to treatment resources...

The opioid epidemic is a health crisis. In Massachusetts alone, there were more than 1,000 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths in 2014.

We know that addiction is a disease. We know that we're not going to be arresting our way out of it.

This Gloucester program is a great example of local leaders understanding what it takes to treat substance use disorders on the ground.

Senator Boxer deserves tremendous credit for negotiating a long-term funding bill for our crumbling roads and bridges. The Fixing America's Surface Transportation, FAST, Act is an important turning point in addressing our Nation's…

a few months ago I asked my Republican colleagues if they had fallen down, hit their heads, and thought they woke up in the 1950s. Today I am back to check on my Republican colleagues because it appears they are suffering from a serious…

I think one of the most important parts of this is the consumer agency said--when credit card companies, for example, got caught cheating people, it said to those credit card companies: Look, you have people's addresses to be able to cheat…

I only want to add that I am grateful for all the work my colleague has done on behalf of American consumers and all the work he did to get the consumer agency through Congress and now to protect it when the big banks were coming after it…

You know, the CFPB works. It works to help protect America's families. It works to help level the playing field. Already that agency has been up and operational for just a little over 4 years, and it has forced the biggest financial…

Well, the Senator raises the right question, but I think it is pretty obvious. If these proposals were debated out in public, where everyone in America could see and hear them, they wouldn't pass. People don't want to line up to vote for…

I am pleased to join Senator Merkley, Senator Nelson, and Senator Reed on the floor today. I thank Senator Merkley for pulling us together. We are here to say no--no to the industry lobbyists, no to their friends in Congress who are…

the clock is ticking. Exactly 1 month from today, on January 1, approximately 70 million seniors, veterans, Americans with disabilities, and others who depend on Social Security and other benefits will get their first check of the new…

I appreciate the colleagues who came to the floor today to talk about the SAVE Benefits Act. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call…

the answer is yes, it does. Senator Nelson has put his finger on a very serious problem; that is, every year because of policies made here in the Senate, we do a calculation of cost-of-living changes for Social Security. The problem is…

I think the American people are right to be a little skeptical of oil industry claims.

We cannot afford the environmental or the economic cost of another BP spill.

The BP oil spill was a massive catastrophe by any measure, and we are here today to make absolutely sure this catastrophe does not occur again.

on Friday, ISIS terrorists massacred 129 people in Paris. Just the day before, ISIS terrorists massacred 43 people in Beirut. While these are merely the latest in a series of horrific attacks launched by ISIS over the last few years, these…