I am actually optimistic and hopeful that we are going to be able to get something done on infrastructure.

it is perhaps a providential happenstance that I should be giving this particular speech while the Senator from Louisiana is presiding because we are both from coastal States. I am sure he will find things that are familiar in my Rhode…

the last two weekends have surged with political activism. Around the world, millions of people took to the streets to stand up for science and to call attention to the global crisis of climate change. This past weekend, my wife and I…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 18 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I think that it would have diverted from the trust of the hearing for her to come there.

These companies know that climate change could disrupt their supply chains, make water or commodities more costly, or even roil international markets. So they are moving ahead whether the President and congressional Republicans are with…

on Monday night we confirmed former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be President Trump's Secretary of Agriculture, and I am here for my 164th ``Time to Wake Up'' speech to urge Secretary Perdue to listen to his agency, to scientific…

I thank the Senator for yielding to me. I wish to say how nice it is to see the Senator from Georgia back here with us. It means a lot to all of us to have Senator Isakson back on the Senate floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from…

this is my 163rd ``Time to Wake Up'' speech. I persist in the hope that one day these little water drops will ultimately cut through the stone of fossil fuel intransigence. Last week our new President, Donald Trump, announced an Executive…

I do think to what you said very clearly before about not impugning the integrity of the FDA.

Antibiotic resistance is described by the World Health Organization as, 'One of the biggest threats to global health.'

I associate myself with the questions and concerns of FDA's role in the opioid epidemic.

for the Senate to act in a responsible way based on the appropriations that were passed last year and move through April without the drama of a government shutdown would be an important thing for us to achieve.

I worry that having the prescription drug industry fund through PDUFA and the medical device industry fund through MDUFA and nobody having a vested interest in the combined products could lead to a loss of interest in moving the combined…

The other concern is that there are drugs--and opioids are an obvious example of this--where the issue of them being taken--safe when taken as directed doesn't really address the public health problem related to them because of the danger…

the value of U.S. taxpayer expenditures at the National Institutes of Health for medical research is very great and should not be cut.

with the Republican plan to defeat the Affordable Care Act itself defeated, President Trump says he wants to move beyond healthcare to focus on other priorities. One area that he has often highlighted is our Nation's crumbling…

I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak as in morning business for up to 17 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Our Nation's Infrastructure

I am here to give my weekly ``Time to Wake up'' speech. It is occurring on a day when the President has signed an Executive order that purports to be an effort to undo a good deal of work the American Government has done to address climate…

on the day of the news reporting the World Meteorological Organization is declaring that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded, and further declaring that the planet is now in what they call, ``truly uncharted territory,'' I rise for my…

No concessions are implied with respect to climate change on this, Mr. Chairman, but it will help.

We have been at loggerheads and have done nothing about it for years and years and years and years and years now.

We need to support it. We need to be a part of the innovation and leadership around the world on developing nuclear power.

I hope that the Committee will take into sincere consideration the home State concerns of Senator Harris and Senator Gillibrand.

If it does, I would like to recommend that we follow the model that you led, that I thought was extremely successful on the Elementary and Secondary Education bill.