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The Senate should use this moment to do what we should have done before the war started—discuss the rationale, strategy, end state, and costs to American taxpayers and our economy.

President Trump’s deeply unpopular war of choice in Iran has imposed a tremendous cost on the American people—including deaths and injuries of our servicemembers and soaring gas prices.

Let me ask, the bill that was mentioned, the Get Justice-Involved Veterans BACK HOME, the pilot program for the V.A. to provide mental health services for incarcerated veterans. To me that is a gimme. That's obvious. But we have to start…

At best, illegal robocalls are a constant annoyance — at worst, they’re scams that target our most vulnerable citizens or tie up businesses’ phone lines.

It was the failure to adopt any reasonable reforms that compelled me to vote against this irresponsible bill.

The recent well-documented conduct of ICE has clearly and repeatedly violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments – with deeply unfortunate results.

It is a shame that it took nearly four months to pass this bill, and even more of an embarrassment that this bill passed on a partisan vote after several attempts at good faith bipartisan negotiations to put in place standards of conduct…

The United States Senate just passed a funding bill for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without any meaningful reforms to the conduct of either.

So, I believe and I would like your view, that a more diverse energy source, particularly one that's based on resources that we control rather than a worldwide price, would be beneficial to the country.

Energy dominance. You use that term 3 or 4 times. If $4.30 gas and almost $6 diesel is energy dominance, I'd rather go back to what we had before.

Our veterans served this country with grit and class, and now it is our turn to return the favor and provide access to the high-quality care and benefits they have rightly earned.

They have stepped up. But I think the American people should understand that we have stepped back.

And yet, this is, I believe, an existential struggle for the future of democracy where we had an aggressive country invade a neighboring country without any justification whatsoever.

One of the factors of this budget that has not gotten any publicity is there is zero funding for Ukraine.

If there has been such, I would certainly like to see it. You probably knew I was going to bring this chart. This is FTEs in the National Park Service going back 10 or 15 years. Here's where we are now. We were understaffed back then.

I understand there's always room for rightsizing and analysis of staffing and those kinds of things, but this is not a gotcha question. I'm puzzled why the administration would cut by one third the funding of one of the most important…

Let's talk about the National Park Service. You and I talked about this before. [The] National Park Service budget is cut by one third. About $1 billion, which is one day of the Iran war just to put it in context. I don't understand why.

It ain't a partnership if one side has to give up everything, and the other side says, this is what we're going to do, and we're not going to give you any money to do it.

Budgets represent priorities, and it's fascinating to me that if you add together the cuts for service operations, forest and rangeland research, and state, private and tribal forestry, that pretty much exactly equals the proposed billion…

Veterans and military families should not see the value of their earned benefits undercut by rising costs.

What puzzles me is the budget that has been submitted only requests one. I don't really understand that.

The idea of building Naval Ships in a foreign shipyard I just don't understand.

There is talk around the budget about building ships and even destroyers in Japan and Korea. That is the worst idea since the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees.