We have to stop playing nice in the Senate and block every damn thing that we can.

All of these people acting like, ‘Oh, we’re going to set up an agency to identify waste,’

Thank you so much, Senator Warren, for your unbelievable tenacity and clear-eyed and thoughtful remarks. I yield the balance of my postcloture debate time on the Vought nomination to Senator Schumer. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Duly noted.

For older New Yorkers, I vote no. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XII, no debate is permitted during a vote. The Senator will suspend. The clerk will continue to call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.

yesterday, Leader Jeffries and I announced legislation to stop unlawful meddling by DOGE or other entities in the Treasury Department's payments system. Our bill will deny access to the payment system by anyone designated as a ``special…

starting yesterday afternoon, through the night, and now on into the afternoon here, my colleagues continue to make an extremely strong and powerful case against Mr. Vought becoming the head of OMB. As I have said before, you couldn't have…

Democrats have spent virtually every minute of the last 30 hours sounding the alarm about the dangers of Russell Vought. We feel it a mission to let America know that Russell Vought is a threat to Social Security, to Medicare, to…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sheehy). Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank my friend from New Hampshire who cares so much about this issue and has done a great job. And I will just be brief on that because I want to talk about Russell Vought. As is clear, we Democrats--I, certainly--I hate the ICC. I have…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support today of the rule which provides consideration of the HALT Fentanyl Act. For 4 long years, the American people suffered from an administration…

We will apply pressure until Iran is brought to its knees.

the concern and the risk couldn't be any higher right now. And it's not because of any effort to streamline the government or make it more efficient.

There's no oversight of Elon Musk. He clearly spent his $250 million to get Donald Trump elected, and now has a puppet in the White House who has given him the authority to go into every federal agency.

What is the point of them being there if they're just bending the knee to Donald Trump?

This is completely lawless. This is a total takeover of the federal government.

Millions of Americans will be hurt. By necessity, we will combat the extreme funding freeze with a forceful response on all fronts.

@ElonMusk gave Trump $250m, so Trump handed him control of America's checkbook.

We need to get out in front of the public and say something — anything.