The standards have made a difference. You know, there are about 2.7 billion lightbulb sockets where, if we use those, it is going to save homeowners about 100 bucks a year.

However, as newer and more specialized medicines come to market, these drugs typically have much higher prices that are too often just simply unaffordable.

When they're over in Iraq or Afghanistan, they have this unit cohesion. There is a sense of incredible solidarity where it's all about helping their battlefield comrades.

I really thought what you just said about the community that you grew up in versus the community that veterans are returning to really is compelling.

In Vermont, and during Iraq and Afghanistan, our loss of combat causalities was, on a per-capita basis, the highest in the country for quite a period of time, and now we have the highest suicide rate.

Federal funding must be provided to help ensure that our infrastructure is resilient to withstand increasingly powerful weather events.

Safe infrastructure requires a stable and reliable funding source.

We want full funding of the Airport Improvement Program.

We are going to have to have a sustainable funding source, and I will support that.

Long overdue investments in infrastructure require a stable and reliable federal funding source.

We have to have more resilient systems, and that has to be organically ingrained in the legislation.

We can't do it without a Federal transportation and infrastructure policy.

I look forward to working with you to include Vermont's priorities in your bill and stand ready to assist you in any way I can to ensure its expeditious enactment.

I pledge to work with you to identify and pass a sustainable federal revenue source.

We have got to bite the bullet on funding.

It is a disgrace, what has happened to our infrastructure in this country. And it is going to be up to this Congress to finally address it.

You are the tip of the spear for us in Congress.

Increasing funding to this and other discretionary programs will allow Vermont to take on more highway, bridge, bike and pedestrian projects.

Let's invest in water infrastructure.

We have received $4 million annually from the program, which is three times less than what we need.

We want funding for programs like the consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvement bill.

There is no excuse for that: 299 bridges in Vermont are structurally deficient; 29 percent of our roads are in poor or very poor condition.

Local governments are ill-equipped to take on stormwater, wastewater, and drinking water upgrades necessary to ensure our water is safe to drink.

It is vital that Congress enact a robust and fully funded infrastructure investment package.

We have worked in a bipartisan manner on lowering drug costs over the last several years.