The decline in our small- and medium-sized manufacturers and critical supply chains is a national security risk.

Resiliency is vital and Commerce can play a very important role with NIST and NOAA and collecting the technical data necessary to define resilience.

The priority is the unserved and the underserved.

We're not going to save our way out of decades of under-investment in R&D and in infrastructure.

It is not an exaggeration to say at the moment that we have a crisis in our supply chain.

It's a place to find a job, to have access to broadband as we've been talking about.

It`s about putting people back to work in West Virginia.

This is an American bill. It`s about giving Americans the chance to compete. And it`s about outcompeting where we need to. It`s about standing up for American workers and American businesses.

We can`t afford not to do it. I mean, this is -- this is about basic fairness. It`s about rebuilding. It`s about American competitiveness.

We are optimistic that we will get it through Congress. The president has been clear there`s room for compromise. Today begins the discussion and the debate. He has done what a great leader does, put forth his vision. And now we begin the…

This is a values-based package. And he is not going to, we are not going to compromise on core values.

The president has been very clear with us, his team, he wants to get something done, which means reaching out across the aisle and looking for common ground.

The staff in the hospitals are exhausted, emergency rooms are overflowing and staff shortages are becoming a real issue.

The Trump administration's family separation policy is immoral, unjust, and un-American. I have not yet been asked, but if I am, I will not deploy units from the Rhode Island National Guard to the Southern Border to support the…

Any destabilizing changes to the financing structure or market structure could result in rate shock.

We cannot allow the newly covered to lose access to care.

Any such shifts would be unaffordable and unworkable for the States.

We must be given the discretion to retain the pieces which work in Rhode Island.

I would be open to discussing modifications to the law.