My point is, in our system of government we have responsibilities to do vigorous oversight and we can't do vigorous oversight if there are improper procedures used to access our files.

I have recently raised conflict of interest concerns with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding Myra Christopher.

today I am introducing the Marijuana Advertising In Legal States Act to allow small businesses and newspapers in States that have legalized marijuana to advertise marijuana products. In the last few years, voters in Oregon, Washington…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, thank you for scheduling this hearing.

I'm glad that most of those mistakes have been rectified and that this year enrollment numbers are high.

I look forward to discussing that with Chairman Hatch and with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

The Finance Committee meets today to consider four nominations for key posts in the Obama administration.

I see tele-medicine playing a hugely important role in improving chronic care for older people in rural areas.

It is clear you want to play offense on tele-medicine, and I think that can be a key component of the bipartisan strategy we envision with respect to chronic care legislation.

Senator Conrad helped all of us to ensure that, in the Affordable Care Act, there was a bigger role for the States in making health policy.

Chairman Conrad would have been a wonderful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

One of the things that is most exciting about the work ahead in this committee is the chance to, in health care, make some extraordinarily important advances.

I do not think that is all so bad.

I come to the floor today to talk about the Energy bill and, particularly, a very important and missing part of the Energy bill. But before I turn to that subject, I want to particularly note, with our colleague Senator Stabenow on the…

last year more acreage in our forests burned than ever before. I know the Presiding Officer understands what this has been like in the West over the last few years. Senator Crapo and I have dedicated something like 5 years of our…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Wildfire Prevention Funding

I thank my friend from Idaho, and in wrapping this up I wish to convey what the bottom line really is here. Senator Crapo and I do not want to be back on the floor of the U.S. Senate in the winter of 2017 once again talking about how…

I hope this trend leads Federal lawmakers to pass the President's national auto-IRA proposal.

The recent turmoil in the financial markets is a keen reminder of why it is important to keep Social Security strong and reject calls to privatize that program.

Our job is to make it different this time with meaningful legislation.

ERISA just really has not kept up with this very different world.

This proposal is a step that Congress can take to put a little more balance in Federal policy to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to save and to get ahead.

They deserve health and pension benefits that they earned over decades of backbreaking work.

That is out of whack, and I would like to change it.

I look forward to working with you and all our colleagues on it.