We have a responsibility to ensure that all Americans have access to reliable transportation.

I hope that you will take that charge on aggressively because I think there is so much that people would like to know.

I hope our colleagues will take time to really deeply understand how much this Act says. It's about small businesses starting something new and being competitive and that's why we need to have Net Neutrality.

I've always said we need to be more aggressive about our coding education.

I think what consumers are worried about is that the app economy is going to get hijacked.

I join my colleagues, Senators Markey, Wyden, and Hassan, on the floor to add my name to a resolution to overturn the FCC's decision, which is ill-advised and very wrong as it relates to growing an innovation economy. The internet is one…

I will not be seeking a waiver.

I believe that Tara Sweeney is the right person for this important position.

I would say a lot of our Pacific Northwest tribes have counted on those environmental laws to make sure their issues on fishing rights and environmental issues are looked after in a government-to-government relationship.

No, we put some money toward that, but obviously we all know that distributed generation could help in the reliability of this.

I come to the floor to pay tribute to Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, a civil rights icon from the Pacific Northwest. In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired the Nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial here in Washington…

I hear them and a lot of them think this tragedy happened and now we're going to build this most resilient grid.

I come to the floor to speak in opposition to the nomination of Kyle Duncan for the U.S. Circuit Court for the Fifth Circuit. I find his nomination troubling, but I find many of President Trump's nominees for judges troubling because they…

It is such an important hearing because we want our small businesses to be able to keep pace.

The Omnibus provided an additional $160 million through 2029 to back pay the programs that had been cut.

And now the CBO estimates that we will return to trillion-dollar deficits starting 2020.

We have to get this right.

The United States is on an unsustainable fiscal course over the long term, and the tax cuts--if they are continued--would add considerably to that gap.

This will ensure communities are not left without the funding they need while we create permanent solutions.

We are talking about $7 million of the Forest Service's $3 billion budget to operate this innovation program.

Getting the Wildfire Funding Fix enacted into law is something that I, Senator Wyden and several members on this side of the aisle, have fought diligently for, for many, many years.

These tax cuts are expected to result in a 70-percent larger rise in Federal debt as a share of the economy than we would have otherwise had through 2025.

When Bush took office in 2001, he was handed a surplus of $128.2 billion. But after two tax cut bills and two unpaid-for wars, we ended up with a deficit of $1.4 trillion.

But when Obama left, he made significant progress cleaning up after the Bush years. We cut the deficit by over half to $665.4 billion.

Currently, the fines for manufacturing are a mere $10,000 for neglect in reporting on that distribution. So to me, that is hardly a deterrent.