Mr. President, on the vote to confirm Marcela Escobari, I wish to be recorded as a no vote. Had there been a rollcall vote, I would have voted no. Mr. President, on the vote to confirm Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon, I wish to be recorded as…

Mr. President, we have come down to the floor multiple times in the last few weeks trying to push the passage of our bipartisan Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. For those who are not familiar with it at this point, it basically says…

Mr. President, I have no objection to the modification. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request, as modified? Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (H.R. 6256) was ordered to a third reading, was read the third…

Ron DeSantis is trying to pass something called the Stop WOKE Act. They’re trying to get rid of language.

There`s a lot of other nonsense in that bill, which I`m not surprised at, as someone who did serve in the Congress, but there`s no doubt states like Florida, who did it right, are going to come up with the short end of the stick, against…

Mr. President reserving the right to object. I want to be clear. I like infrastructure. I spent $85 billion on infrastructure. With $10 billion a year, we had a dramatic increase in infrastructure. It is part of the reason we added 1.7…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, you know, my colleagues keep talking about the infrastructure bill. The difference between their infrastructure bill and what we did while I was Governor of Florida is this: I actually spent…

Reserving the right to object, as my colleague is aware, I have an outstanding request with the Commerce Committee, which my colleague chairs, for us to hear testimony from Commerce Secretary Raimondo and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg…

Mr. President, I still can't understand, if the Biden administration is doing so many things, why wouldn't they want to come brag about it? Why wouldn't they want to tell all Americans exactly what they are doing? The reason they don't…

Reserving the right to object, the one thing that has not been addressed is, if this were so important, why didn't my colleagues go to the majority leader--same party--and ask him to file cloture on these nominees? I still also have never…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object. First, I want to thank my colleague from Washington for holding the hearing with the airlines, and there are two things about that. I was surprised that I didn't get a very good answer from the…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object. Let's remember why I am here. For weeks, I have been asking the chair of the Commerce Committee to invite the Secretaries of Transportation and Commerce to come tell us what they are doing to…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, you know, my father was an over-the-road truckdriver. He drove for Admiral Freight Line. My uncle was an over-the-road truckdriver. He drove for a consolidated freight line. I watched the…

Mr. President, first of all, facts are facts. Less than 50 percent of the bill had anything to do with roads and bridges, airports and seaports. We were told all along it was going to be paid for; it wasn't. The Congressional Budget Office…

Mr. President, so I think my colleague doesn't understand that when you borrow money, you eventually have to pay it back. The government doesn't produce income. It takes money from people. That means that when that bill--the so-called…

Mr. President, I would do what I did in Florida. I walked into a $4 billion budget deficit. I balanced the budget. I cuts taxes and fees 100 times. I paid off a third of the State debt. I never increased my State debt. I actually cut it by…

Mr. President, my experience is totally different than my colleague from Montana's experience. My experience is you build your economy by growing jobs. You build your economy by investing in education, where you get a return. So, in my 8…

Taking the Fifth, I think it`s disgraceful. The mob takes the Fifth. If you`re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?