Now, some have proposed making students pay more interest on their loans or reducing the sources of grant aid.

Thank you, thank you for in your testimony saying that we need your students.

I hope we can work with the Department of Education to fully implement the ESSA law as Congress intended.

In every public health emergency, we have to pay unique attention to people with functional needs that put them particularly at risk.

Those are senior-level shortcomings across the system that end up with reducing access to our veterans for care and wasting taxpayer dollars.

In the wake of Hurricane Irma, as hospitals were evacuating, the top priority was protecting vulnerable populations including people and individuals with disabilities, and children, and pregnant women.

I especially want to thank Senator Casey and Senator Burr for their bipartisan work and leadership on this really important issue.

Last year, the Department tried to quietly take money away from some really essential programs--HUD-VASH, childcare, treatment for women veterans--and move the money to general purpose accounts where it could be spent on literally anything.

PAHPA actually acknowledges that there must be specific attention paid to at-risk individuals, and we want to build on that last authorization, because I think we can do better.

But we have got secret waiting lists for group mental health care, wait times. This is all from the IG. I am not making this up.

We need to do more. We need to do better, and I am going to continue to try to do it.

A pandemic could affect half a billion people, more than the entire population of the United States; and that is not speculation.

I come to the floor today to talk about an issue that is critical to patients and families in my home State of Washington and across the country. Today, parents are wondering if they will be able to get the healthcare their kids need, and…

I look forward to hearing your perspective on how we can better help our communities fight this crisis.

Since 2000, nearly 10,000 people in Washington State alone have died of opioid overdose.

I'm glad to be continuing our discussion on this really important issue.

I do not understand the impulse to strip away Medicaid expansion, particularly in areas where this problem is so intensively felt.

An important part of that is also the mental health support and everything else that Medicaid brings.

I've heard these heartbreaking stories firsthand traveling around my home State of Washington.

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as a U.S. Senator, one of the most important and consequential choices I make is whether or not to support a judicial nominee. The men and women of the bench are often the final gatekeepers of our Nation's justice system--and the right…

I come to the floor today as a voice for 800,000 young men and women who are counting on all of us to pass the Dream Act. We can't wait because they can't wait. Every day that passes is another day they are forced to keep their lives on…

I'm proud of our work on Cures to address head-on some of the hardest to treat diseases by providing nearly $4.8 billion in funding for the NIH.

Cures was really first and foremost about providing hope, hope to the millions of people and families who are impacted by illness and disease.

as Senator Murray recently referred to.