I hope members will support what Senator Heinrich and I are calling for with respect to declassification.

With his signature he created the Crater Lake National Park and it is the deepest lake in the United States, known for its beautiful blue water.

When you sell off or exploit your public lands, you don't get them back.

I am quite certain that Teddy Roosevelt would not be here defending the virtual elimination of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

You proposed opening America's precious coast to offshore oil drilling.

Would Teddy Roosevelt be sitting where you are today, advocating the virtual elimination of the Land and Water Conservation Fund?

Senator Hatch and I have introduced the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2018. This bill makes a number of improvements to our Nation's employer-provided retirement plans and is the result of several years of bipartisan work on…

as I was walking into the Chamber tonight, the press outside was telling me that they had just been told--and I hope to hear otherwise tomorrow--that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on which the distinguished Presiding Officer…

Could you furnish in writing to the chairman and me your thoughts of what might be a set of penalties that would ensure that this was not just, in effect, the cost of doing business?

Can we have a commitment today that you will lay out for us what it is you are prepared to do in terms of this authority?

CBP would attempt to accelerate this review, if possible.

This year of uncertainty... has real consequences for American workers and American families, and they deserve better.

The President has inflicted a punishing year of uncertainty on the American economy.

I hope that this committee will soon hold hearings on the administration's many trade activities--including the steel and aluminum investigations and potential tariffs, the NAFTA renegotiations, and the investigation of China under section…

The Internet is now the shipping lane of the 21st century.

Would you recommend to the chairman and me that, as part of this effort, we beef up the penalties?

I think the priorities are way out of whack when you have twice as many people in this area where the evidence shows that illegal activity is going down.

the rip-off artists, the counterfeiters, are trying to undercut the American brand. So this is really high-stakes stuff.

So that is good to finally have that on the record.

I hope this committee will soon hold hearings on the Trump administration's varied and sundry trade activities.

We have been having this conversation for what feels like a longer-running battle than the Trojan War.

Certainly Bob Mueller works on the criminal side. We work on the civil side. It's our job to tell the American people what happened with respect to Mr. Torshin and the NRA, for example, if these reports are true.

I think it would be very helpful, but he would not be my first choice of a witness at a public hearing. I think my first choice of a witness at a public hearing would be Michael Cohen because Michael Cohen is the President's go-to money…

I certainly don't agree with his judgment about the past election. For example, the intelligence community has said they didn't look at influence operations by the Russians.

for the elite, the powerful and the well connected, the Republican tax law has turned out to be manna from Washington. The benefits of the tax law are about as one-sided as it gets, and middle-class Americans come up on the losing end. It…