It's an important lesson in the importance of innovation.

2 months ago I came to the Senate floor to urge the majority leader to schedule a vote on the nomination of Gayle Smith to serve as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, also known as USAID. Here we are, 7 months…

I think we need to start right now in order to get that done.

I am very pleased to be on the floor with my friend and colleague from Mississippi to talk about Bosnia- Herzegovina and about our trip to commemorate the horrible massacre in Srebrenica that occurred in 1995. As Senator Wicker has said…

We are. We share that. The fact is, this is a bipartisan issue. As my colleague points out, the United States brokered that historic agreement in Dayton. We were the only country that could really take that leadership, and we need to…

as my colleague from Mississippi points out, this really is critical not just to Bosnia and its future, but this is also about the national security of the United States. My colleague talked about the Balkans. We know World War I began in…

I thank my colleague. As you point out, we represent two very different parts of the country.

I rise today to speak in support of the Clean Power Plan and against the efforts by the majority to undermine the plan. The Clean Power Plan is vital to the environmental and economic well-being of both New Hampshire and this country. It…

Do we have the capacity with the structures that we have set up to do what we need to do in the future?

We have to get serious about this and probably spend something commensurate with what our enemies spend.

When you are making allocation decisions, are those linked to national security priorities in the country?

If we are going to have an impact, we have got to look at how we get into the grassroots and get into those young people.