I ask unanimous consent that the remaining votes be 10 minutes in length. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause, Senators rising.) The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Republican whip.

In 2019, when Congress enacted the SECURE Act, which many of us cosponsored, it included a provision that I authored...

In April, I introduced the SIMPLE Plan Modernization Act with Senator Warner.

Thank you very much, Senator Scott. That is typically gracious of you.

For me, this is about respect and how you go about implementing this vaccine requirement.

I rise today with my colleague, Senator Tina Smith, to introduce the Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act, legislation that eliminates Medicare's arbitrary 190-day lifetime cap on inpatient services in psychiatric hospitals. Given…

The reason those threats are being made is that people are being told something that is untrue, that a, there was massive fraud, and b, that election officials were in on the fraud.

We need to empower voters to challenge efforts in states to make sure that they are not undermining election results.

I also invite my Republican colleagues to work with us on these commonsense solutions.

We need to protect against interference in the counting of ballots.

I want to make it clear here and now on the record that I, for one, would be very willing and able to enter into constructive discussions with my Republican colleagues on what they would like in the bill.

Congress and our--actually the drafters of our Constitution anticipated that the Congress would have a role in making or altering the laws of elections.

We need both sides to come to the table, and I think the example of what happened in Kentucky... is a terrific example for us to follow.

part of the problem is we have converted political--political opponents into enemies and everything is a war.

We are trying to set a floor, a national floor for protecting the right to vote and protecting the integrity of the voting system.

The American people--it would be a great thing for the American people to see Congress working in a bipartisan way to deal with elections.

I think what you said is very important because what you said is consistent with everything I have read and heard about voter fraud across the country, and that is it is isolated.