We are very much committed to helping children in the Medicaid program and in private insurance.

I support her because she is a nurse and she will always put patient care first.

Voting to confirm her is a vote that you will never regret.

I would be happy to address that question from my senior Senator and good friend, Mr. Warner. As he indicated-- and I think I can maybe say it a little bit more strongly than he could because he would be a little bit modest. I know of many…

I thank my colleague Senator Warner. I do want to pick up on one of the last points he made, which is the balanced way of getting to where we all want to go. We want to have a growing economy with a lowering unemployment rate. We want to…

Absolutely. I am pleased the Senator brought this up. When folks are furloughed and they see their pay reduced, they will spend less at the drycleaner and less at the restaurant. They will delay the purchase of the automobile they planned…

Obviously, you know, we have--as a matter of foreign policy--we have every reason to see the Assad regime get ushered out.

I am intrigued with the winning-the-narrative argument that the Chairman raised...

We cannot simply look and say, 'Oh, they are a member of x group. We cannot work with them on anything.'

I think Congress' role is to consider carefully different circumstances around different assertions of the use of force.

Part of our counterterrorism challenge is the disruption of criminal networks.

The United States partnership with Indonesia has been fantastic.

This is a fundamental issue of civil and human rights and we need to get it right.

Absolutely. I am just coming from an armed services hearing, I say to Senator Mikulski, where we were talking about that very same thing. The armed services mission, of course, requires that we protect the men and women in uniform. But so…

It is like the old commercial about the price of various things but some things are priceless. There is no way to estimate it. Just off the top of my head, there have been analyses of the degree to which the Federal budget impacts the…

I am hopeful that we can build on some of these initial changes which include: one, ensuring that all convicted sex offenders in the military are processed for discharge.

Sexual assault in the military also destabilizes our military, threatens our unit cohesion and national security.

I rise in support of the work Chairwoman Mikulski and Ranking Member Shelby and the Appropriations Committee have done and the place they will bring us to on the floor of the Senate this week as we take an important step forward to fix the…

Congress would be derelict in its duty of oversight if we just shrugged our shoulders at these 19,000 sons and daughters.

Your sense is that that has been a positive change because it gives people first a safe way to share their stories and then find out there are others that have their stories.

The scourge of sexual violence in the military should be intolerable and infuriating to all of us.

I believe that there will come a day when things will likely change. I do not think that North Korea has forever to make the strategic choice to go in a different direction that will involve reaching out to the rest of the world and…

What is the right way to change the calculus with North Korea vis-a-vis the nuclear program?

They have got an off-ramp. There is a way that we can work this peacefully, diplomatically that we presented to them time and time again, and they have chosen not to take us up on it.

People grow to tolerate all over the world sadly and live under dictatorships, but they start to get restive under hereditary dictatorships.