one of the biggest mistakes in the budget, from my perspective, is the decision to cut a DDG from the current multi-year procurement contract.

Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Fox nomination?

I am very concerned that Afghanistan is going to fall to the Taliban and that we, once again, will see the imposition of Sharia law.

we need more DDGs patrolling the Pacific, not fewer.

China, on the other hand, now has the world's largest Navy, has about 60 more ships than our own fleet.

The Biden Administration is committed to maintaining Israel's Qualitative Military Edge as a policy priority.

It is vitally important. Beginning of 2024 scheduled Virginia Class maintenance availabilities at the shipyard will exceed its capacity.

But just to clarify. You stand by the statement that is in the budget materials, that the additional money would eliminate the 20 deferred maintenances?

Virtually every major source of business and revenue for bus companies...has been severely restricted or eliminated over the past 14 months.

In December Congress passed the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services Act, known as the CERTS Act.

If NextGEN worked as intended, we should see all of those trends going in the other direction.

I hope people will be prosecuted for the violence that we've seen on videos.

I want to make sure that rural states like Maine remain competitive and get a fair shake in RAISE going forward.

Senator Jack Reed and I authored this legislation and we were successful in getting it included in the December package.

I was pleased to see that the Army's budget request includes 21 million for a new Joint Vehicle Maintenance Shop for the Maine National Guard at its Saco location.

My hope is that we're not going to see another two-month delay once the applications are received.

a billion dollars is a lot of money year after year after year, though it doesn't seem so in this environment anymore, but it used to be a lot of money, and to have push for this money year after year after year and then see such poor…

Last year I urged USDA, obviously in the past Administration, to include loggers in its COVID assistance programs.

I rise today to introduce the No PFAS in Cosmetics Act. I am pleased to be partnering with Senator Blumenthal on this important legislation. Our bipartisan bill seeks to ban the inclusion of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in…

I very much appreciate that the Department's budget would continue the Integrated Pest Management Program, but I am dismayed that it would eliminate the USDA's Potato Breeding Research Program.

I rise today to introduce the ``Ending the Diagnostic Odyssey Act.'' This legislation gives States the option of providing whole genome sequencing (WGS) clinical services through edicaid for children with a disease that is suspected to…

I want to make sure that rural states like Maine remain competitive and get a fair shake in RAISE going forward.

I am concerned that there are still two open GAO recommendations to HUD related to service coordinators.

it feels to be holding the gavel even for a very short time once again.

In December Congress passed the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services Act, known as the CERTS Act.