America's reputation is based on its ability to deliver the world big, Earth-changing solutions.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

Our nation, in a short quarter-millennium, catapulted itself to global preeminence by solving the world's greatest problems and exporting those solutions to the rest of the world.

Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.

The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.

Helping people get the skills they need to set them up for a rewarding career helps keep people in Connecticut, and it ensures that we have a workforce that's ready to fill the thousands of manufacturing jobs of the future.

Washington can be a frustrating place.

The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.

People are working hard, they're doing everything we ask of them, and they are still struggling. It's not enough to just have a job. We need to make sure that these are good-paying jobs that pay the rent and put food on the table. Jobs that have benefits like health care and that allow people to save for retirement.

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

The Choose Medicare Act will let people of all ages buy into Medicare as their health care plan, and it would let any business also buy into Medicare and offer it to its employees.

The most popular health care plan in the country is Medicare. It delivers the best care at the lowest cost - it's better than any other part of our health care system. But most people can only get it when they're over 65. I don't think you should have to wait that long.

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.

Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

As lawmakers, our job is to listen to our constituents. If our phones are ringing off the hook with people demanding to know where we stand on an issue, we pay attention.

If you want to change our gun laws, the best thing you can do is find a group that speaks to you and get involved.

There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.

Whenever I travel abroad, I try to visit U.S. troops just to say thanks.

For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.