I think it is a common concern, that that long wait time is, you need to have enough time for people to prepare their asylum case fairly but not so long that it is essentially years waiting while you fall in love, you have children, you…

Will it encourage other dictators around the world to take additional land?

Well, I certainly believe that it undermines that sense of fairness and participation if the best off among us have full permission to cheat and not pay their share.

If the U.S. appeases Putin by throwing support for Ukraine overboard, that somehow Putin will never do aggression elsewhere.

I hope we'll see an eruption of integrity across the board, and bipartisan support for the integrity of every citizen paying their fair share.

People cannot find it. They cannot afford it.

Should we reject such a strategy from the House of Representatives?

Is borrowing more in order to let the wealthiest off the hook good for America?

Failure to fund Ukraine will do deep damage to the Atlantic alliance.

I just heard the allegation that collecting taxes due is punishing success. Is it punishment on success to enforce the tax code?

I think it will be one of the biggest foreign policy mistakes we could make in generations if we bail on Ukraine.

reserving the right to object, our colleague has come to the floor and asked for unanimous consent for a bill of some major significance. This bill deliberately throws the Republic of Ukraine under the bus by ripping Ukraine out of the…

While we're paying our fair share, the wealthy need to pay their fair share too.

Failure to fund Ukraine will also put some cracks into NATO.

So, colleagues across the aisle have proposed not enforcing the tax code with the richest Americans. They want to let them cheat. Is that good for America?

China will see us as weaker.

I think this is one of the most important decisions we have faced in the time I have been in the Senate, probably the most important decision.

I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bills on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bills will receive their second reading on the…