my recollection is--and we have passed this bill, as we both have recognized, every year for the past 60 years, including over the last 4 or 5 years--in the last several years, there weren't that many amendments. There were a few, and it…

Thank you, Chairman.

I think without a doubt we are greatly concerned about the cyber threats posed by China and Russia to the U.S. financial system

I want to talk about the national defense bill, but first I do want to respond just in one particular to the comments of the gentlelady from Tennessee because I have heard this before, the idea that the infrastructure bill isn't…

I want to talk a bit about the fact that we are pivoting away from terrorism and terrorism financing in the focus on Russia and China.

About a decade ago, when former Senator Joe Lieberman and I headed the Homeland Security Committee, I remember vividly testimony that we received from the Treasury Department in which the officials said that Saudi Arabia was the epicenter…

Well, just quickly, a final question. Would Iran be on your list?

What can be done to ensure that any humanitarian assistance that is sent to Afghanistan, whose people are in dire need, is not diverted to strengthen terrorist groups?

I rise today to introduce the Clean Cooking Support Act. I am pleased to be joined in this effort by my friend and colleague, Senator Durbin. Our bill aims to address a serious global public health and environmental issue where leadership…

I rise to discuss the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. I want to make two basic points at the beginning and then discuss some of the specifics of the bill. The first is the word ``deterrence.'' The cornerstone of…

I ask unanimous consent that my military fellow, Sean McDonald, have floor privileges during the consideration of the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act and any consideration of matters pertaining to national security. The…

There is one law that this Congress cannot repeal--the law of supply and demand.

If exports were limited to a surplus, then it would not affect domestic prices, but it has to be affecting domestic prices and it is getting serious now.

We are squandering an advantage right now because of uncontrolled exports of natural gas.

I think often politicians, and particularly presidents, get blamed for gas prices which, in fact, fluctuate substantially as we know based upon oil prices and fluctuations in the market, rarely from executive action.

We are exporting our principal advantage in the world economy. We are literally subsidizing Chinese manufacturing by sending them our natural gas.

What my legislation will do is simply say, 'We want you to do a study of what the impact will be on domestic prices.'

We are racing blindly into a future and cutting off our most significant economic advantage vis-a-vis the rest of the world, particularly China.