I don't know if we will have to do legislation here, but the fact that the President thinks he can change this by Executive Order... is just very bothersome.

Certainly the State of Washington, having implemented a policy, we have been very interested in this.

prevention is medicine.

I would reiterate my response to Senator Cantwell's question about addressing the general shortage of workers with cybersecurity training.

I am proud that our State was one of the first to do family leave. I am proud that they are one of the first to do paid family leave.

I come to join the debate this morning on the farm bill and to make sure we get the farm bill passed. It is so important to the State of Washington and to our country. I know many of my colleagues have been down here talking about…

People seeking asylum should not be treated the same way as some criminal.

We want those who are seeking asylum not to end up in a detention center.

I want to ensure that she knows where her child is.

I also intend to continue to pursue making sure all our colleagues at DOE understand the very terrible idea that the Administration is putting forward in trying to sell off assets from the Bonneville Power Administration and TVA.

I am concerned, however, about the nominee to run the Office of Energy Efficiency and I know that I will have questions about the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Portfolio that you will be in charge of.

This administration is turning her into a threat. We want due process.

I want to know... what else needs to happen for her to be processed?

One of the best negotiating tools I think that is out there is the provision of the basic health plan or essential plan that is now operating in a few States.

I also disagree with Secretary Perry's proposal to subsidize high-cost coal to compete with natural gas and renewables in the market.

I am looking for market power for individuals who are not finding it in other ways.

We kind of look at trade wars as very 1980s retro policy, because one in four jobs is related to trade.

Somebody pays the price. And in this case, we are very, very concerned about agriculture.

When we have trade wars, it impacts the Washington economy in a major way.

I come to the floor to honor Washington State's finest, Spokane native and Washington State University Cougar Steve Gleason. I know my Senate colleagues will be here later this afternoon to do the same. My colleagues from Louisiana and…

today I wish to thank my colleague from California, Senator Feinstein, for including provisions from my legislation, the Comprehensive Addiction Reform, Education, and Safety, CARES, Act of 2018, S. 2440, in her bill the Using Data to…

Is the Administration for reregulating electricity? Is that what that position is? Because I don't get it.

I hope my colleagues stand prepared to join in protecting consumers against this alarming plan, just as we did on the previous one.

I wish I would have been here earlier to help introduce Amy Karpel to the committee.

I mean the notion that someone would supplant the market of delivering affordable electricity with the most available unit of cost-effective energy and supplant it with an order that would say, 'buy something more expensive,' is disrupting…