I rise to speak about the amendment. Under our current military justice system, when a servicemember is accused of sexual assault, the decision to prosecute isn't actually made by a trained prosecutor or a lawyer of any kind. In fact, it…

I ask unanimous consent that it be in order to offer amendment No. 4310, notwithstanding rule XXII, and the Senate vote in relation to the amendment; and that the amendment be subject to a 60-affirmative-vote threshold, with no…

No one outside of our military who are trained to use these weapons needs to have access to a weapon that can fire hundreds of bullets in a minute, hundreds of bullets in a minute.

I thank the chairman for his remarks, and I thank the leaders. I urge my colleagues to allow a vote on my amendment No. 4310. We now know far more about the extent of the military sexual assault problem than we did last year. We have more…

I know that everyone here shares a desire to fix our chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and I appreciate the years of hard work that my colleagues, starting with the late Senator from New Jersey, Frank Lautenberg, put…

I rise to speak about a bill I am introducing along with Senator Grassley called the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Improvement Act. When our first responders make the decision to join a police department or a fire department or an EMT…

They basically said, it is not our concern; we don't have a concern; industry standard is we have redundancy.

I just want to thank Senator Booker and the other sponsors for taking one of my concerns into account by adding a comment period so that communities could have a chance to be heard on the placement of plants.

I really think it is important.

Therefore, on behalf of our 17 million constituents who live within range of the plant, I offer this amendment to force the NRC to finish the root cause analysis before allowing Unit 2 reactor to restart.

All my amendment does it ask the NRC to look at it.

The NRC should be taking this issue much more seriously.

My amendment addresses a very specific issue to this nuclear plant we have in New York State called Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

I feel they are not doing their jobs. They are avoiding authority, which is absurd.

What we saw after Superstorm Sandy is a warning.

Many of my constituents on Long Island and I support the idea of turning it into a wildlife refuge in order to conserve this piece of land for future generations.

We had this issue with microbeads, and we were successfully able in Congress to ban them because it had so many horrible effects for killing fish in a lot of our rivers and water bodies.

I am sure you are aware of the problems that Long Island and New York City face in terms of managing their solid waste and preventing contamination into our waterways.

I'm obviously very troubled by these allegations that the Department, and specifically the military, provided misleading information to Congress.

What do you think is the line that the Department and military should draw when it comes to lobbying for or against legislation?

April is actually Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and I rise to speak about two extraordinary women who were accepted into their dream colleges and then after they arrived on campus were sexually assaulted. They tried to seek help from…

Although the prevalence for military sexual trauma is higher among women, given the significantly larger portion of men in the Armed Forces, there are similar numbers of men and women who have survived sexual trauma.

One of the issues that some of us work on is rescheduling marijuana to become a Schedule 2 drug so more research can be done and so patients that have been prescribed the medication can get access to it more regularly.

Last December, there was a study completed by the VA researchers that was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on the link between military sexual trauma and death by suicide.

In the last report we got, 62 percent of the people who reported that they were sexually assaulted were retaliated against.