I just think we ought to be looking at all alternatives and thinking outside the box.

I rise today to point out that the Federal Communications Commission is voting today, perhaps this morning, to begin the process to roll back a regulatory framework that should never have been imposed on broadband service providers in the…

are we in morning business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are not. We are on the Brand nomination.

I would like to commend the leadership of the Senate Finance Committee for their years of work to address the cost and quality of chronic care in America.

this legislation would serve in improving the health of seniors with chronic conditions

Imagine the incredible impact that this technology could have if Medicare would allow its most vulnerable beneficiaries to use something like remote patient monitoring.

Our bill would lift Medicare restrictions on the use of telehealth and improve coverage of remote patient monitoring.

What about the backlog of species petitions awaiting review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife?

Our goal is to get all sides involved in working on ways in which we can accommodate private landowners and conserve species at the same time.

Is there some recommendation you would have to this Committee about streamlining the rules or making the process more efficient?

How do you set a different time on an ad hoc basis, though?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

the officers aboard the commercial vessels object to the suggestion that the stand-down was somehow because a major portion of the sexual assault problem stemmed from the Sea Year program aboard commercial vessels.

most of the problem occurred on Academy grounds, and yet your response was to stop the Sea Year, and that seems disproportionate to me.

So you dispute the preliminary 2015 and 2016 Service Academy Gender Relations Survey, which says that 73 percent occurred on Academy grounds.

I hope that's correct. Let me ask you just briefly--and I'm imposing on the time--did the accreditation problem catch you by surprise?

the majority of the assault was taking place during the Sea Year, and I think the facts are to the contrary.

MARAD funds six ships that are on loan to the State Maritime Academies as training platforms for their students.

I have a letter here from Paul Doell, National President of the American Maritime Officers, dated May 8, 2017.

today I wish to express my concerns about the outcome of the April 16 constitutional referendum in Turkey, when more than 50 million Turkish citizens voted on constitutional amendments to convert Turkey's parliamentary government into a…

If the traveling public wants to boycott United as a result of this outrageous incident, which you say you've corrected, they really don't have a way to boycott you, do they?

In many instances there's no place for me to go if I want to boycott United because of this.

I think it says that you've got the passenger where you want him.

Mr. Kirby, since this incident in Chicago, how has business been at United?

this might be one of the big areas that we would go ahead and address quickly on a bipartisan basis, because there is bipartisan support for infrastructure.