I thank the Senator from Louisiana for the question, but most of all I thank her for her energetic leadership on this issue; she will help us find the right way forward. I am here today because of what I am hearing from families in…

A lot of the socioeconomic problems that we are talking about here would be powerfully addressed by improving the educational success of our young people.

Healthy people have stable, safe, clean housing.

We are talking about creating a permanent social stratification in our society which is socially unstable, politically unstable, and economically damaging for our country.

Then I will just say I am pleased to join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in calling for this commonsense delay which will give FEMA time to get this right. I thank Senator Landrieu for her leadership, and I thank Senators…

We are raising a generation that is going to be sicker.

When we look at data like this and we see that just cleaning up the environment means that we cut visits to the emergency room for children with asthma from 80 percent to 20 percent, that is not only economically sound.

We seem to be caught in a vicious cycle here.

So there is one strategy. We multiply Barbara times 100.

I rise to express my strong support for efforts to stamp out sexual assault in our military, and I wish to begin by thanking the Senator from Maryland and the Senator from Maine for their extraordinary leadership in bringing us here to…

Let us start with the trend lines; where we are heading right now.

What it means to Senator Sanders' point is that our children that are growing up under these conditions--we are raising a generation that is going to be sicker.