tapping into community resources is essential.

access to health care in rural areas is a big issue in our state.

The Affordable Care Act expanded coverage to 20 million Americans.

I do not know how the United States of America is better off by taking $53 million from navigators.

This legislation represented the first concerted Federal effort to incentivize the development of new treatments specifically for rare diseases.

I will be very brief. You were all so compelling and your testimony was so captivating that I stayed longer than I had planned.

I am quite proud of because I developed this policy with Senator Isakson.

Thank you, Chairman Paul, for calling this important hearing.

It is on the record. Yes.

The disability wait times and backlogs are unacceptable.

I will go to the mat to prevent these harmful attacks on Social Security.

This backlog of disability cases means people often wait more than a year or longer for a decision. That is unacceptable.

Let me be clear colleagues: cuts to Social Security are the exact opposite of what's needed now.

September 24 to 28, 2018, marks Malnutrition Awareness Week. Malnutrition Awareness Week is a multi- organizational, multipronged campaign created by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition to educate healthcare…

I rise today to urge the Senate to pass the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act. This is a bill that not many Americans have heard about yet, but it is a critically important bill for the Senate to pass and very important for…

We have never won a tariff war in the United States.

I am for building bridges, not building walls.

I rise before you today to express the importance of freedom of the press both around the world and here at home. Journalists take risks--often great risks--to tell the stories of war, genocide, hunger, poverty, and corruption around the…

I think the right problems are currency manipulation and workers' rights violations.

I think that's something that we also don't give enough attention to, which is that American businesses that are trying to produce in the United States on American soil are put at a ridiculous disadvantage when trying to compete with China…

When China cheats, we lose lots of jobs in Pennsylvania.

It's my belief--and I think there's a lot of data to validate my belief--that the decline of unions is one of the reasons why we've had a wage decline or at least stagnation over time.

I rise, as my colleague from Alaska just did so eloquently, to pay tribute to our colleague and our friend, Senator John McCain. I guess I have to start with a question: Where do I begin? Where does anyone begin after all we have heard…

I come to the floor this evening to spend a couple of minutes talking about the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. We know that the debate has been engaged now for a number of weeks and that the American people…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh