Senator Cantwell. Well, Madam Chair, thank you so much for this invitation to come to Cordova.

I also appreciate that Senator Cantwell pointed out the fact that we're not just talking about these unique, small situations in Alaska, but that this really does represent the way that we are going to transform the electric grid and the…

And you are behind the cut--okay. I will just take that as a 'yes,' that you are behind this particular cut.

The United States has a huge opportunity for other parts of the world that are so energy inefficient and whose grids are so elementary to take and create the smart grid and smart building platform for the future.

Women cannot be discriminated against by their employer who wants to cherry-pick various aspects of women's health.

So if we want to keep being a leader, we need to keep our investments in R&D and deployment going.

So we are where we are today with over 370,000 workers in the solar industry, and one out of every 50 new jobs in the United States in 2016 was created by the solar industry.

I think we are getting a letter today from all the former leaders of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy... saying not to gut the EERE office.

So you are saying that the extension of the mandatory sequester is not a cut to Medicare?

NextGen is paying dividends, and so if we get to this point where we don't get there on this discussion, we hope that we'll keep making progress on the implementation, just as we did under the last extension bill.

My colleague from Louisiana has said there are things that are working, and that the States should keep them if they want to.

The Basic Health Program (section 1331 of the Affordable Care Act), which I authored, is an innovative, State-run plan that is delivering high-quality and low-cost health care to more than 750,000 low-income Americans and counting.

I come to the floor to talk about the President's proposed budget as it relates to Medicaid and the fact that it is just a war on Medicaid; that is, it continues the wrongheaded ideas that have been proposed in the House bill on healthcare…

I come to speak against the Congressional Review Act resolution to overrun an important rule that has been put in place to protect the American taxpayer and to protect the health of American citizens. For almost 100 years, the Federal…

I suggest the absence of a quorum and ask unanimous consent that the time be equally divided. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the…

I note, too, that we are going to be moving today, before we leave here, to what is the Omnibus resolution to keep the government open. I wanted to mention an important aspect of the legislation we are going to be voting on. Pursuant to…

I come this morning to talk about the impending passage of a very failed healthcare bill in the House of Representatives and to remind my colleagues that this legislation moving through the House of Representatives is the first time in the…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Republican Healthcare Bill

For a passenger who presented no threat to safety or security of a flight to be treated that way is completely unnecessary and unacceptable.

We're going to tell you how you can and can't operate to protect consumers and the traveling public.

We must continue to identify and evaluate the threats to the system as well as appropriate investments in technology to reduce these threats.

The electric grid is essential to our lives and also the lifeblood of our economy.

You need to ask yourselves as providers: Are you prioritizing those shareholder profits over the basic needs of consumers?

If you want us to legislate that, we will, because we're not going to run into the same situation.

I just feel like the airlines are basically leaving too much of this to interpretation at the gate level.