I wish to thank Senators Lee, Sanders, and Murphy, as well as the other cosponsors of the resolution we are debating, for their commitment to elevating this debate in the Senate. I agree with my colleagues that this is an important debate…

That's particularly relevant in the Trump administration, which takes a slash-and-burn approach to health-care budgeting no matter how many millions of Americans it stands to harm.

They have torpedoed them and, in the process, are standing in the way of helping some of the most vulnerable children in America.

By torpedoing these rules, the Trump administration is standing in the way of helping some of the most vulnerable kids in the country.

I want to make one thing clear: I am not going to let this go.

But just in the last few days, the Trump administration made the baffling decision to step in and block the Administration for Children and Families from moving forward with implementation.

I come to the floor to amplify the efforts of my colleague Senator Whitehouse as he gives his 200th climate speech on the Senate floor. He really has become a modern-day Paul Revere on one of the most critical issues of our time that very…

there is a vast difference between being the CIA Director and being the Secretary of State

If the United States does not advance smart policies and invest wisely in good governance, meaningful development, humanitarian, and appropriate security assistance, we will feel the impact here at home.

So do not judge the success of a country simply by how fast it has an election.

Fragility breeds instability which often spills over artificially constructed borders. Terrorism, infectious disease, mass migration and climate change--these do not respect national borders.

This administration's incoherent approach to foreign policy threatens to make these problems even worse.