It's as clean as clean can be, which is not to say it's a comprehensive tobacco strategy. It's just the most important one thing that can be done quickly.

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On behalf of the people who elected us, we must formalize and accelerate the impeachment process so that Congress, by exercising its responsibility under Article 1 of the Constitution, can provide some measure of accountability.

If YouTube, Facebook or Twitter employees, rather than computers, were making the recommendations, would they have recommended these awful videos in the first place, companies are letting algorithms run wild and only using humans to clean up the mess ... Algorithms are amoral.

This is a question of where you stand as it relates to the constitutional authorities of the legislative branch and what they're working on is purely a distraction.

I believe working towards implementing end-to-end encryption for all private communications is the right thing to do.

I sense a certain disdain for diplomacy in Mike Pompeo that I believe disqualifies him from being our next senior diplomat.

A missile attack is federal, a missile attack is not a local resp... by Brian Schatz

A missile attack is federal, a missile attack is not a local responsibility.

This bill will help improve our ability to defend Hawaii, Alaska, and the U.S. mainland against a North Korean ballistic missile threat.

Jeb Bush's comments regarding the children of Asian immigrants are derogatory and offensive, he should immediately retract his statements and apologize to the Asian community for his insensitive behavior.

I just don’t understand, the legislation is not deserving of being the No. 1 priority of the 114th Congress.

We need a generation of net neutrality voters. People now really understand what's at stake, and we need to translate millions of comments to the FCC into millions of votes in the midterm.

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It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

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The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.

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Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.

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I'm saying that when a publicly traded company says something doesn't make a difference in terms of their investments, I trust that they are representing those facts accurately.

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The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.

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Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.

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That's how the Pell Grant system works, in that you get a flat dollar amount, and you can use it for tuition or room and board.

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America's brightest minds are charting a course to a clean energy future that will provide for our health, safety, and prosperity.

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One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the... by Brian Schatz

One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

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When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.

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