This is a wonderful place, and the opportunity to serve our communities, our neighbors, the Nation, you know, it is a fantastic honor.

What are you going to do to make sure every kid has a chance to get meaningful work experience while they are still in school, before they actually go out and get a job?

I am grateful to be recognized, especially with the Presiding Officer in the Chair for the beginning of this talk, because I just wanted to come out here and mention that the last time I spoke on the floor, I spoke about the Department of…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Portman. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 7; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…

Democrats decry walls from within their own heavily guarded razor-wire wall. Democrats don’t want to protect you, because they don’t care about you.

The reported words that the Vice President uttered in that entire episode are some of the most chilling that I`ve seen in terms of what happened on January 6.

I was on the floor of the House from 8:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. until we certified the election results.

Clearly, the president, the former president was impeached for inciting the attack on the Capitol, but the subtext was always this conspiracy to ultimately subvert the peaceful transfer of power.

We had spent weeks preparing rebuttals to the objections that we knew we’d be made on January 6.

This is the America that we built and it`s not ok.

We know that when we passed the assault weapons ban, that was in the books for a decade, that the use of those firearms went down 30 percent.

The answer to this problem is there are more guns. There`s just no reality in there, there`s no policy, no evidence that supports that at all.

The trauma of gunfire, the trauma of events like that will be with you for the rest of your life.

There are common sense policies we can pass that will change things.

But we know they are wrong.

I've spoken to Adam Smith and others about integrating some of the defense sums.

I don't see this as really a zero-sum game within NASA where we need to have our security parts of the budget to participate in this.