I am surprised and disappointed that you feel you have to consult with counsel on something that is so clear.

deferred maintenance is debt, and we've got to address this.

Do you know any specifics?

The United States Code says any judge, justice or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

Have the Koch brothers, directly or indirectly, been substantial supporters of that foundation?

deferred maintenance is debt.

New England is enormously dependent on natural gas.

There is no effort made whatsoever to coordinate schedules of hearings around here.

Certainly, a cyberattack on the grid is a very serious concern.

first I want to congratulate and thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his moving and eloquent remarks--so moving and eloquent, in fact, that I contemplated foregoing my own. The Senator expressed the feelings of many of us, particularly…

It strikes me that is--might be a violation of separation of powers? The President either gets to appoint, or he or she doesn't.

I mean, we are upgrading the status of this office, but it is still under the Librarian of Congress.

I still want to--I still would hope for the record that you could give us some thoughts about the--it seems to me we are doing sort of a half way.

We can do anything we want to.

I have run out of time, but if you have thoughts on that, please supply them for the record.

the discussion today is about the opioid crisis, one of the most serious public health crises I have seen in my adult life, certainly in the State of Maine. It is an enormous problem across the country, particularly in rural areas. In my…

I must say, I'm a little uncomfortable with where the line is between taking down misleading or fake information and taking down what someone else may consider legitimate information in the marketplace of ideas.

I hope you're doing the same to educate your users as to the potential that they can be misled on your platform.

I would argue that the heart of free and fair elections is information.

I'd hate to see your platforms become political in the sense that you're censoring one side or the other of any given debate.

One of the great things about traveling with John McCain, I told somebody the other day, it was like a long march with Paul McCartney.

I hope at some time tonight you will play his concession speech in 2008. It is a classic of graciousness and healing and urging the country to come together.

my colleagues have spoken eloquently about the weaknesses of the supposed new Clean Power Plan, which is anything but. I wish to speak a minute about why this is such a detrimental idea for the country but also for my State. Let's put it…

today we remember the life of Christopher ``Chris'' Cousins, who passed away suddenly last week at the age of 42. Chris was a political reporter for the Bangor Daily News and recently named by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting…

I have often likened the grid to a church that is built to accommodate Christmas and Easter and on a Sunday morning in February there are a lot of empty pews.