the real question is who bears the risk?

if the private sector is not willing to, does that tell you something about it?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

in 15 seconds I yield to no one here in my commitment to the environment, but I also have a commitment to common sense. We are talking about bridges, not expanding--same size, same dimensions, and same location. If that were it, I would…

at 3:30 in the afternoon on December 23 of last year, about a half hour before sunset, the lights started to go out in western Ukraine. The power started to go out. The operator in one of the Ukrainian powerplants noticed, to his horror…

we just invoked cloture on an amendment to deal with the funding of an incipient epidemic--an epidemic that has serious ramifications for our society and for our country--and it is right that we did that. I rise today, however, to point…

I think one of the great mistakes we made in this country in the nuclear industry was having each plant being an individual plant with its own unique design rather than a standardized design.

Listen, and once you do nuclear you have fixed your energy costs and your fuel costs.

when Senators rise on this floor, typically we are identifying problems, we are talking about how to solve them, and we are talking about how prior actions haven't quite worked. Today I have the pleasure of rising for the opposite reason…

Are they being degraded in terms of equipment as well as finances, manpower, foreign fighters? Where are they getting their equipment?

If Baghdad isn't inclusive, then this whole enterprise is just not going to be successful.

Always a negative effect on morale.

It would really help, in my view, if we were members of the Law of the Sea Treaty.

Do we have any information that their morale is declining?

it's not in our national interest to not be at the table, it seems to me.

I think that's important news out of this hearing that this is not a hopeless situation, that there are successful treatments.

I want to encourage you, in the strongest possible terms, to pursue these technological advances, because time is not on our side.

I think we should be applying the same level of resources, money and personnel, to transition out of the service that we put into recruiting in.

So, you see this as an important area, that the comorbidity is a significant issue.

I also want to address a second issue while I have the floor, and that is a conversation I had yesterday with Judge Merrick Garland. We had an opportunity to talk in my office for about 45 minutes to an hour. We talked about a wide range…

I rise today to speak about a bill that I am introducing today, along with Senator Coons and Senator Portman, called the Stop Taxing Death and Disability Act. It is a bill that responds to a tragic and unintended and frankly unsupportable…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine. (The remarks of Mr. King pertaining to the introduction of…

today I join my esteemed colleague, Senator Susan Collins, in recognizing the 100th Convention of the National Association of Superintendents of the U.S. Naval Shore Establishments, NAS NSE. This association works diligently to implement a…

I am not going to sit back and just hope that we do not have any more emergencies during bad weather because hope is not a policy.

I am going to make sure that the people of King Cove are heard.