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.

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

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

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

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

today, I am introducing the Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2017. This legislation, if enacted, will help ensure that when Americans entrust corporations with their most sensitive personal information, these corporations take the right…

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

I want to speak about a subject that many Senators are aware of and should be deeply concerned about. As we remember, in the early morning hours of March 3, 2016, Honduras lost one of its most courageous and charismatic indigenous leaders…

as Republicans consider tax proposals to disproportionately benefit corporations and the wealthy, they simultaneously fail to address revenue-draining loopholes that compel hardworking taxpayers to subsidize corporate misconduct. Today, I…

something truly outrageous is happening today on the floor of the Senate. The resolution we will consider today signals to the American people, in no uncertain terms, that they do not deserve the right to seek justice when big banks or…

I want to speak briefly about the situation in Uganda, which should concern all Senators. Uganda, located on the Equator in East Africa, has been a friend and partner of the United States for many years, particularly in the fight against…

in correspondence with officials of the Government of Bangladesh over a period of several years and in conversations with officials of our own State Department, I, like many others, have raised concerns about enforced disappearances…

I just want to address very briefly one other issue that surfaced last week. Press reports indicate there are multiple nominees of President Trump awaiting Senate confirmation, but even though they haven't been confirmed--there has not…

let me just speak for a few minutes on the emergency supplemental appropriations for disasters. No one in this Chamber is immune from disaster. Six years ago, I remember, in Vermont, Marcelle and I watched as communities around Vermont…

I agree with my colleague that there are no recommendations on where these cuts are coming from. Do they come from the programs that support our Nation's veterans, from the National Institutes of Health--the cutting-edge cancer research it…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

budget resolutions set general spending priorities for the Federal Government. The budget resolution before us today, however, sets a path for so-called tax reform that will benefit the wealthiest among us on the backs of hard-working…

I would like to take a moment to pay tribute to August ``Gus'' Schumacher, Jr., who passed away on September 24. Gus was an altruist who dedicated his life to discovering ways to help both farmers and those who are hungry, both here in the…

I want to speak briefly about a recent report by the Secretary of State concerning, among other things, impunity within Indonesia's military. This has been a concern of mine, and of many others, for decades. Senate Report 114-290, which…

last Friday, President Trump announced that he will slash our refugee admissions to 45,000 in fiscal year 2018--the lowest annual target since the passage of the 1980 Refugee Act. Instead of embracing our moral and legal obligation to…

in 2015, the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, did something that can be all too rare Washington: It listened to the American people. After a record number of Americans spoke in favor of clear rules to protect a free and open…

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.

in the year 2017, when some people live in extravagant homes with half a dozen or a dozen bathrooms with marble floors and the latest fixtures, an estimated 2.5 billion people live in squalor with no access to modern sanitation. One…