Patrick Leahy

I have always felt that, if you strike a deal with them, they keep their word and we keep ours.

We need to make investments, so we actually do right by all and feed everyone. It has to be more than a slogan.

I'm of the school that you make an agreement, you stick with it.

At least for the record I want to know what you will do about Chinese censorship when they come to you.

It calls for the death of a Muslim journalist.

U.N. investigators have blamed you, blamed Facebook for playing a role in the genocide.

Are you able to confirm whether they are Russian-created groups? Yes or no?

Six months ago, your General Counsel promised us that you were taking steps to prevent Facebook from serving, as it is called, as an unwitting co-conspirator in Russian interference.

Thanks in part to Congressional support led by U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

We strongly oppose the inclusion of any anti-environment riders in the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations bill.

Medicaid is a critical lifeline to provide care for victims of opioid abuse.

Talk is cheap; money is effective.

It's alarming and disappointing that from the start of the administration, the President has not made the necessary investments to tackle the opioid epidemic.

Last year drug overdoses claimed the lives of 64,000 people in this country.

We need a comprehensive plan to address all of these issues if we're going to get the opioid epidemic under control.

Overprescribing opioid medications for chronic pain opens the door to addiction, overdose, suicide risk, and that devastates families and communities.

We've left too many veterans broken and in pain. When we needed these brave men and women to return to battle, it was very easy just to prescribe opioids for pain management.

We've left too many veterans broken and in pain.

It's hitting sons and daughters and mothers, fathers, friends, coworkers. It is impacting our veterans, our servicemembers.

Every state and every community in the country has been hit with the opioid epidemic. None of us can say we've escaped it.

What is the parliamentary situation? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate is considering the Kan nomination.

I was disappointed when I saw that the President's budget proposed to eliminate rural housing service grant programs.

This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. We are all concerned.

I am wearing my hat as the Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee now.

Are you going to push for those resources?