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Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

I do not understand how people can look at the rapid spread of extremism all across the globe and not understand that it is - that it isn't coincidental to the concurrent rapid spread of a very conservative strain of Islam that is paid for out of Saudi Arabia.

Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.

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

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.

I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.

Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.

The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.

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.

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.

Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.

I would be a rich man if I had a quarter for every time one of my Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee utters some variation of the sentence, 'President Obama doesn't have a strategy to defeat ISIS.' It's their calling card on the committee - and on the campaign trail.

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

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

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.

Too many families know what it's like to have to choose between providing care for a family member and keeping their job.

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.