One of the things about your testimony that's important is, you know, I'm a senior citizen now.

I think it's just outrageous that we're making people do that.

Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed to them for half a century.

I think we need a national protection. I have a bipartisan bill that would protect both Griswold and Roe and restore to where we are, pre-Dobbs.

I think it's just outrageous that we're making people do that.

I think the Dobbs decision was a disaster, both in terms of the human consequences of it, but also the radical nature of undoing not just 50 years of Roe v. Wade, but a hundred years of 14th Amendment precedent.

But Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed to them for half a century.

this is a hearing that is about how abortion bans have created a health care nightmare.

for the first time in my life, I felt like an endangered species. No one should be made to feel that way.

We need to make sure that Federal benefits, like those available under the Black Lung Benefits Program and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, are available to the workers who need them.

What more can we do to promote early detection?

We have to make sure that miners are not left behind.

I am thrilled to join my colleagues on the floor to talk about the importance of this border security bill, but I am also going to talk about my own naivete and admit to being a very naive Senator. When I came to the Senate in 2013 with…

I have been struck with what Cecil Roberts said that this is happening to younger and younger people.

I am happy about this silica standard. I know Senator Casey and others really leaned hard on the Administration to issue it.

What more can we do to promote early detection?

I was in Tazewell County this weekend down near the Pocahontas area where there have been one massive tragedy after the next.

We need to make sure that Federal benefits, like those available under the Black Lung Benefits Program and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, are available to the workers who need them.

I am happy about this silica standard. I know Senator Casey and others really leaned hard on the Administration to issue it.

We need to strike the right balance to procure these important resources responsibly and protect both our communities and our workers.

I have been struck with what Cecil Roberts said that this is happening to younger and younger people.

I was in Tazewell County this weekend down near the Pocahontas area where there have been one massive tragedy after the next.

We need to strike the right balance to procure these important resources responsibly and protect both our communities and our workers.

We have to make sure that miners are not left behind.

I really appreciate that. And now President Roberts in the time that I have been in the Senate, you have gone to bat again and again and again to solve tough problems.