Kelly Ayotte

My constituents are really tired of waiting for contribution reform, and they're putting a lot of money into this.

Why does the Open Internet Order jeopardize the potential to do contribution reform?

I urge you all to take a nice trip through New Hampshire and have the same experience in many rural parts of New Hampshire where there is no telecommunications coverage.

My constituents are not going to want to pay that tax, and I don't think there's support for that tax.

I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. This is a bill that we have been working on for 2 years--Senator Portman, Senator Whitehouse, and Senator Klobuchar. I thank them for…

we need to be very careful about this.

How important is it that we proceed with Phase 3, which consists of an Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System in Poland by 2018?

I continue to remain concerned. Russia has essentially blown off the INF Treaty, and what it means for, obviously, the protection of us and our allies.

Another shared concern is defense of the Aegis Ashore sites.

it is time for us to stand with the people of Ukraine.

let us provide lethal support so Ukrainians can defend themselves.

What I worry about, when you talk about the implications of over-broad patent reform, one of the things that distinguishes us from other countries is really our strong patent system.

Does it not advantage the bigger entities? So, could it not force people like Dean to have to go to a bigger entity?

The FDA is there to serve all of us. The FDA is there to make sure that people can be protected, but not from themselves.

It is really troubling to me that they have not issued final guidance.

I hope that we can come up with a really strong, bipartisan consensus with some of the feedback that you have given us today.

How are we taking this decision-making away from families who are in a position where it is a life-or-death situation for them?

He is the guy who starts out in his garage and now he is big, for sure.

I come to the floor today to express my serious concerns with the FDA's actions on opioid pain relievers and my concern that they have not sufficiently addressed what we are seeing as an epidemic in my home State of New Hampshire. The…

I cannot believe that we would have a system where we are going to put iconic fishermen out of business.

I think it would be reasonable for this committee... to put forward language that does not put every small ground fisherman in my state and the New England States out of business.

But why can we not fund the $3.78 million of monitoring so they do not go altogether out of business?

So like a lot of things, leadership really matters.

So we want to talk extinction. This is extinction of fishermen.

Not everyone wants to sit in the traffic either.