when somebody who is under the grip of an addiction says I want treatment, that is a window that opens.

But that is something that you are going to continue to monitor.

This affects every level, and that is why we are now spending the time that we are.

the need is so intense that I am still going to go.

I am pleased to introduce with my colleague Senator Murphy, a bill that extends the sunset of the Iran Sanctions Act, ISA, of 1996 until the President certifies to Congress that the Director General of the International Atomic Energy…

We really believe it here--and I think it is now bipartisan--we are seeing in all of our States that if we do not get a hold of the culture of over-prescription of opioid-based prescription drugs, we are just hollowing out communities…

I want to talk, Mr. Chester, about your written testimony.

If you looked at the top 10 most affected States, they included some of the poorest States in the country and some of the richest States in the country.

If it is not going to be enforced, you have got a lot of skepticism around just that question.

This shook the confidence of those like me who are TPP proponents.

The TPP is a huge initiative of this President. It is extremely important to this administration, and we really believe that it should be done.

India's status as that secular democracy, as you described it, is a really important one, but you can only have that status if people do not feel like they are going to be preferred or punished for how they choose to worship.

I get the feeling just in listening to your testimony and some of the concerns that people on both sides have had that we are not as brutally honest about our relationship with India as we should be.

We certainly would have encouraged them to allow these researchers to travel because we believe it would foster greater understanding.

I think it is good that as we think about that part of the world, we are changing our vocabulary to reflect the fact that the relationship with India is of growing strategic importance.

I met with the Indian Ambassador to the United States in recent months to talk about this and shared my very significant concern about it.

The Indian Government denied visas for American researchers in March who were going as part of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

I rise to speak on Lee amendment No. 3897 that deals with the Federal Fair Housing Act, and I want to describe why many of my colleagues and I are opposed to the amendment. The amendment would eliminate the current affirmative furthering…

I rise to discuss the pending vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, and I do so on a very momentous day in American legal history. May 17, today, is the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the pivotal case of Brown v. Board of…

Absolutely important. And as I think about my own high school years, many, many years ago, vocational education was almost kind of a tracked system where people would be sort of pushed there if teachers or guidance counselors did not think…

It was an important part, I think, of ESSA and the reauthorization this committee and the Senate did.

The reduction of funds is sort of coming at exactly the wrong time because the good news is I think there is a renaissance of awareness that this is really important.

This is an example of the second class status of CTE that still is kind of contained in the Federal laws.

I think it is really important work that we can be about between now and the fall of 2017.

It is really important that through the Department of Ed and in our own interactions with our State officers and the States we represent ask what are you doing on the career counseling side.