Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that privileges of the floor for the remainder of this Congress be granted to the following members of my staff: Andrew Wishnia, Zachary Pilchen, Christina Baysinger, and Skylar Bayer. The PRESIDING…

I yield back our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on agreeing to amendment No. 2914.

Mr. President, earlier when I spoke about the amendment with Senator Coons as the lead Democrat, I mentioned the wrong cosponsor. I would correct myself to say it is not Senator Rounds, who does great legislation, but in this case, it is…

Mr. President, the amendment Senator Alexander and I are offering is a bipartisan effort, as you can tell. It is the result of discussions between Senator Alexander's Appropriations Committee staff and the staff who works for us on the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To direct the Secretary of the Army to submit a…

I often say, if we do not address unfairly traded steel imports now, China and other countries will just move down the supply chain.

I simply do not understand because as I read the challenges presented to the United States, I get that there are certainly conventional military challenges that are different today than might have existed 10 years ago.

Are you concerned about the humanitarian consequences?

So what have you recommended to the White House regarding the U.S. position on the assault on Hodeidah? And would you recommend that the UAE halt its operations--this is primarily a UAE operation--to give negotiations a chance?

Mr. President, I am here to join Senator Daines in recommending the Legislative appropriations bill to our colleagues. I note his history lesson--10 years since we passed a Legislative Branch appropriations bill on the floor of the Senate…

Well, you cannot respect the work of the special envoy in the middle of an assault on Hodeidah.

I think it is unfair for you to leave this committee or the Congress with the impression that this is about balancing domestic needs with international leadership because it is not that we are spending less money globally, it is that the…

I think Iran complicates the problem.

If the chair would allow the other two witnesses to answer and then I yield back my time.

I believe that's a standard that will not be met. I believe that we have approached this in a naive way in which Kim Jong-un has gotten all the benefits and we have gotten nothing.

What we do know for sure is we are going to need our alliances.

I think we are having an intellectually honest conversation about something that's terribly important.

We have the recognition of their nuclear status de facto by having the summit by the United States.