We must take our own side in this fight, not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Americans.

I am also disappointed by the changes being proposed to the Essential Air Service program that keeps much of rural America connected to the transportation network.

I am concerned about the impact that elimination of long-distance service would have on shared infrastructure with state-supported routes.

We need a budget deal that provides essential increases to meet the needs of the Nation, as well as parity between defense and non-defense discretionary spending.

the elimination of the highly effective and popular TIGER program, for which I have advocated consistently since its creation nearly a decade ago, is a mistake.

I would like to take a moment today to talk about the ongoing efforts by the Senate Republicans to take away health insurance from millions of Americans by repealing the Affordable Care Act. I was here on the floor just a couple of weeks…

As you cut long-distance routes, ironically it appears from our analysis that it is going to cost more overall.

President Trump's tweet in May that we need a good shutdown in September and many of his budget proposals that make cuts for cuts' sake only add anxiety, exacerbate uncertainty, and promote bad strategic decisions.

These events are a pattern of Russian aggression that has occurred repeatedly across Europe and the United States.

Russia's plotting with proxies inside Montenegro and the failed attempt to overthrow the pro-Western government and assassinate the Prime Minister marks a dangerous escalation of its malign influence activities.

Your budget will be what we finally, on a bipartisan basis, vote for.

today I am introducing the State Flood Mitigation Revolving Fund Act of 2017 along with Senators Kennedy and Menendez. The purpose of this bill is to reduce flood risk and the costs associated with flooding by establishing a State…

I share your concern that the President really has to take the lead here for obvious reasons.

not only the reaffirmation of Article 5, but also a positive statement about the common threat of cyber against the United States.

I come to the Senate floor, once again, to urge my colleagues to work in a bipartisan, transparent fashion to improve our healthcare system and help bring down costs. Over the weekend, members of the American Medical Association--the…

today, along with Senators Brown, Tester, Blumenthal, Kaine, Duckworth, Warren, Baldwin, Franken, Klobuchar, Cortez Masto, Van Hollen, and Menendez, I am reintroducing the Military Consumer Enforcement Act to further strengthen consumer…

As a proud resident of Rhode Island and proud resident of Providence Plantations, I thank the Chair for the recognition. Mr. President, I want to join my colleagues in expressing strong opposition to the Republican efforts to repeal the…

Well, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the gentlemen, Mr. Faso and Mr. Collins, for their leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, in my district, the 23rd Congressional District, where we sit on the border of the State of…

Are we taking it serious enough? I guess that's the issue.

So we're, again, about 18 months away from election. We have to be able to develop, not technical infrastructure, but an organizational infrastructure that could react, maybe on very short notice, to discovery that actual votes were being…

On Thursday, June 15, 2017, I was unable to vote on rollcall No. 308: Passage of H.R. 2579, ``Broader Options for Americans Act.'' Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

today Senator Blunt and I are reintroducing the Family Self-Sufficiency Act, and we are pleased to be joined in this effort in this Congress by our colleagues, Senators Scott and Menendez. The Family Self Sufficient, FSS, Program is an…

I would expect at some point, not right away, but at some point that Mr. Mueller would feel he has to depose the president.

Undermining the very core of our democracy and our elections is not a discrete event.

the Russian investigation, as you have pointed out, and as all my colleagues have reflected, is one of the most serious hostile acts against this country in our history.