WASHINGTON–Madam President, we are debating, last week and this week, the authorization for the use of military force authority that was granted in 2002, which is a really important debate that we are seeing right here on the Senate floor. By the way, it is a good-faith argument. There are Members on both sides […]
Introduction Good morning, everybody. Thank you, Mr. President and Speaker Tilton. It’s very much an honor to be back here. To all legislators—some of you new to me, some of you dear old friends—I just want to say, it’s great to be back home with all of you! Things around here have changed some. There’s […]
WASHINGTON—Madam President, today, actually, I want to talk about the Americans of the century, the Americans of the century. This is an iconic, iconic picture of the men–and, of course, women–who built our great Nation: the working families, the union members who built our great Nation, won World War II. This is, by the way, […]
WASHINGTON—Madam President, I want to talk about two other issues today that I care deeply about–I think most Senators do, and certainly Americans do–and that is two things that our country desperately needs: infrastructure and energy. Infrastructure and energy–and we all know that this is what is needed. We talk about it here a lot […]
WASHINGTON—Madam President, I want to turn to energy now. You know the President is in Saudi Arabia. There is a lot of irony here, I believe, because his administration has clearly made it harder for Americans to produce American energy with American workers, with American infrastructure. That is a fact. That is a fact, OK? […]
Mr. President, I wanted to come down to talk about a topic that a number of Senators have been talking about and that a number of Senators have been focused on. That is the topic of Taiwan and potentially the defense of Taiwan and the support for Taiwan. As this body knows, in 1979, the […]
Mr. President, like my good friend and colleague Senator Murkowski, I rise today to recognize a giant, a larger than life man, certainly a legend in our State, and certainly a legend in the House of Representatives, Congressman for all Alaska, Donald Edwin Young. As Senator Murkowski mentioned, we lost this great Alaskan, this great […]
Mr. President, the American people–the world–is watching a really horrendous, barbaric, horrible situation in Ukraine; and we are all praying for the people there, trying to do as much as we can to support them. And this barbarism we are seeing from Vladimir Putin is something I don’t think anyone is ever going to forget. […]
Mr. President, obviously, the images coming out of Ukraine and the heroism that we are seeing is inspiring people all across America, all across the world, and it is spurring governments to action, appropriate action. Just the other day, there was a world leader in charge of one of the world’s most important countries who […]
Mr. President, I want to come down to the floor and talk about the issue that is certainly the focus of America and the world right now, and that is Ukraine, and that is the President’s State of the Union Address, which will be a very important one tonight. And I know that Americans all […]