Any guideline has the challenge of is it too hot or too cold or just right. We have been way over on the too cold side.

I hear the problems with the people who are taking the multiple meds and the side effects. It is real.

V-BID principles have been implemented in your State of South Carolina Medicaid program to ensure that vulnerable beneficiaries have better access to potentially life-saving drugs used to treat chronic diseases.

today I am introducing the 400 Years of African American History Commission Act. During my tenure as Governor of Virginia I presided over the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, VA, by the English colonists in 1604. Last year I…

The United States has just taken on the chairmanship of the Arctic Council for the coming year.

Croatia definitely punches above its weight on the security front. It participates in 11 peacekeeping operations.

America's strength is in its values.

Key to this is going to be, as I mentioned to Senator Cardin, decentralization of authority from Baghdad to the provinces.

Our main emphasis right now is using Guinean troops or helping support Guinean troops for peacekeeping operations in Mali.

We need to do a more effective job using your diplomatic skills.

At the end of the day, what will save Lebanon are institutions and not personal relationships and individuals.

The decision to allow one Sikh for the first time in history of the Army to wear a turban and beard might seem like a small thing, but it is actually about a deeply critical American value that sadly is really wanting and needed in the…

I strongly opposed that on the theory that two year budget deals are providing certainty and why would we want to now kind of throw that up in the air and inject more uncertainty in the situation.

OCO is not money that you can really count on.

I’ve wondered about whether the cyber domain would eventually become so significant that there may be the need to consider creating a dedicated Cyber Academy.

I want to also associate myself with the comments of the chair with respect to the effects of sequestration and the need for us to find a better solution.

On the Navy side, less than half of our Navy's ships are ready to meet wartime plans.

If that is going to be a big strategic direction going forward, that would necessarily involve the innovation around the creation of new unmanned platforms.

I also rise to support the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016. It is good to see on the floor colleagues who have worked on this important legislation from Maryland, New Jersey, our committee chair, and the Senator…

To accommodate a constrained top-line, PB17 defers near-term modernization, which will only exacerbate a coming bow wave of strategic recapitalization and other procurement requirements.

Our budget is based on the top-line that Congress gave us.

I ask unanimous consent that Sanjay Mukhi, Michael Pascual, and Heather Ichord, congressional fellows in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 114th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

The United Nations adopted sustainable development goals last week, sort of setting out for the next 15 years a whole series of efforts to reduce extreme poverty, promote public health, educational opportunities, and advance other human…

I hope part of what we might try to do in the NDAA this year is just agree, look, we are not required to continue a sequester that was put in place with budget caps in the summer of 2011.

I think it's a very forward-looking approach.