I thank my colleagues, and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

Is this part of the Russian campaign to undermine faith in Western democracies?

today I wish to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the city of Auburn, ME. Auburn was built with a spirit of determination and resiliency that still guides the community today, and this is a time to celebrate the generations of…

It's been ridiculous, totally inaccurate. In our view, the suggestion the CIA was swindled is false.

This is an election year in our country and it's, frankly, frustrating to me that we haven't passed legislation to help states strengthen their security of their voting systems.

I think that's something that we could do in this situation as well.

I just want to tell you that I am just overwhelmed by your ability to take such a tragedy and turn it into something that is going to help other families avoid what you went through.

the bill would create a task force to help develop and distribute information designed to help kinship parents

we have seen the number of such families soar by 24 percent over a 5-year period due to the opioid crisis

I wish to join my colleagues in expressing my serious concern with the 5-year oil and gas leasing plan released by the Interior Department that proposes opening up vast portions of U.S. waters for possible oil exploration and development…

what we heard is it was really hard for them to learn to navigate the school system all over again

I was impressed by a group of students from Fort Kent, Maine, who have developed their own program to try to help their peers avoid alcohol abuse, tobacco, and opioids.

I am happy to hear that.

I hope we can do this in a bipartisan basis as kind of the first step toward a much broader issue here.

You have not produced any documents. We have made phone calls. We have sent emails, status updates. We need that information.

We need that information. We have been given a minimal amount of documents, most of which are not at all responsive to the request.

Thank you to my colleagues for being so gracious.

By median age, Maine is the oldest state in the Nation and is aging the most rapidly.

Mainers age 65 or older accounted for 19.4 percent of the population of the state in 2016.

For the next 12 years, 10,000 Americans will turn 65 each day.

I think your online services are excellent, but they do not reach everybody.

I think these programs, in Maine's experience, have been absolutely critical in filling gaps and thus allowing students to complete their education.

I joined a bipartisan group of Senators in pressing for an extension of that program in 2015.

I have seen firsthand students becoming discouraged from completing their degrees because they start to feel overwhelmed by college costs, debt going up, repayment.

I have no faith in Congress to come up with--that is not really fair, given the track record of the Chairman and the Ranking Member of this Committee, which is a spectacular one.