"I want to thank Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Johnson, and a number of Republicans that helped me to get some funds into the last budget omnibus spending bill that expands the LEAD program across the country into some of these critical areas that are dealing with opioids."
"I would remind the public that the Senate Judiciary Committee literally just approved, in a 14 to 7 vote, bipartisan legislation that protects special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation."
"I will say that I share my colleague's frustrations that this committee has turned into a bit of a theater."
"Thank you so much, Chairman Diaz-Balart for having me here, Ranking Member Price, thank you, Members of the Committee for the tireless work that you have done."
"I am troubled by some of the statements that we heard last year, as our Republican colleagues attempted to push through--did push through--a tax plan that really benefited only the wealthiest in the c..."
"the plan here is to first, transfer trillions of dollars of wealth to the wealthiest... balloon the deficit"
"there are lots of opportunities to do things that do not involve cutting Social Security"
"If we do not have transportation that connects to the port that helps get goods from Eastern Washington or apples or all of the things that we export from Eastern Washington in, if we do not have clea..."
"I want to thank you, included nearly $2 billion for Amtrak and my hope is that the national network of passenger rail will be robustly supported with a serious eye towards passenger rail safety."
"I was very pleased that the Subcommittee included language in the 2018 omnibus that sets a clear deadline for the Department to commit to releasing the funds."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."