The ACA has worked in Rhode Island and we have a remarkable story to tell.

Payment reform so that doctors are compensated for keeping people healthy rather than starved on that front.

let's go back to the basics here. The basic fact is that the scientific truth of climate change threatens the business model of enormous industries that spew carbon dioxide, and it challenges the ideology of rightwing fanatics who spew…

what I would like to speak about is a new form of fossil fuel-funded climate denial spin that has just entered the climate debate. They are always up to something, and here is their latest. The Trump administration's two great scientists…

I am here to speak about something else, but let me take just a moment and thank my chairman for what he has done. I had the experience of serving on the HELP Committee with Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray when we did the…

I think we are waiting for Senator Grassley to come, and then we will be ready to proceed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman Grassley has been a wonderful colleague in this effort. It is the culmination of years of work, including multiple committee hearings, briefings at home in Rhode Island and…

Climate denial, on the other hand, avoids peer review as if it were Kryptonite, so this call for peer review of the contest between climate science and climate denial is almost comical, except for the evil intent behind it and, of course…

I believe strongly in the value that older adults provide to their communities.

We have recently passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.

I want to thank you for the terrific work you have already done to try to make sure our country is prepared for bioterror threats.

If confirmed, I will work to keep prevention at OASH a top priority.

Opposition letter dated August 1, 2017 to Hon. John Thune and Hon. Bill Nelson from Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator.

Vaccines save lives. They are the most important health innovation of modern times.

this bill is the product of the most secretive and partisan process I have seen in my 10 years in the Senate. Who did the magicians who came up with this listen to? They obviously didn't listen to the doctors. The American Medical…

I intend to file the following motion to H.R. 1628 and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. The motion is supported by Senators Brown, Franken, Van Hollen, Cardin, and Feinstein. There being no objection, the material…

something else happened this afternoon in Washington that I wish to relate today on the floor, which is that the American Enterprise Institute hosted the launch of Senator Schatz's and my American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act. I am delighted…

I appreciate the remarks of my friend. I would simply note that nothing he has said explains why you would want to strip hundreds of millions of dollars out of Medicaid or why you want to deny coverage to elderly folks who get Medicaid…

let me open my remarks by saying that from the very beginning of this ill-starred healthcare misadventure the Republicans have been on, Democrats have over and over again offered to help and to participate. Over and over again, we have…

If it's hitting home in Alaska, if it's hitting home around the world, we should not be paying zero attention.

We are headed for a world in which there's actually more plastic waste mass in the ocean than there is living fish mass in the ocean.

Warming, acidifying, and rising oceans endanger our Rhode Island coasts.

One of the things that we are learning, as you know, is that billions of tons of plastic is going into the oceans.

Innovative clean energy solutions to reduce emissions and stave off those disastrous effects are vital to me.

the President's budget is very inconsistent with the bipartisan support for our national laboratories.