America's competitiveness helped build the largest, most dynamic economy in the world, but it is facing unprecedented challenges.

Manufacturing is a tremendous driver of innovation and patents in the United States.

I have a legislation I am trying to put forward called the Put Our Neighbors to Work Act.

I would ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the following nomination: Calendar No. 265, Shalanda H. Baker, of Texas, to be Director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact, Department of Energy; that the nomination be…

I understand that there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bill by title for the second time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S…

I appreciate being recognized, and I am grateful that this conversation is being held between myself and the Senator from Utah, who is one of the more principled friends I have made in the U.S. Senate. He has been a friend and a colleague…

In order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I would object to further proceeding. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________

I chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We have jurisdiction over arms sales. All I want to know is who the hell you are selling it to, and you cannot tell me that?

I do not know when tweets became disqualifying for nominees.

the President, as a candidate, promised that he would return the jurisdiction of the export licensing of semiautomatic weapons from the Commerce Department back to the Department of State

I authored that legislation, so I am very proud of that, and also shepherded in the FirstNet operation here at DHS.

I would hope the Biden administration follows through with more Latino nominations for this and every other agency.

I think this is absolutely ridiculous.

No future Administration should be allowed to so cruelly and deliberately inflict harm on its citizens.

the question that's still needed to be answered is why weren't we proactively prepared?

We are strong supporters of law enforcement across this country, and we don't engage in hyperbole or politicization of the protection of our citizens through its law enforcement.

I am really sensitive to these issues of redundancies.

It would be a lot quicker for Congress to ban nonessential uses of PFAS than to wait for this TSCA process to take place.