I join with my colleagues that we should be on the offensive and not the defensive.

Prior to the pandemic, the SBA 7(a) Loan Program was SBA's most common loan program and served as a critical tool for small businesses to get access to capital.

I urge my colleagues to support my amendment.

If you really were serious about helping restaurants and you really want to be able to fund them at the rate we need to, that is what he is actually trying to do.

When Congress reopened the PPP program for a second round, the intent was to tailor these funds to businesses that were most impacted by the pandemic.

Cybersecurity has to be, from the domestic security perspective, a heightened and enlightened defense effort.

I am very supportive of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. For months I have been hearing from restaurants in my district about the need to pass the bill which will provide $120 billion for grants to restaurants.

Unfortunately and respectfully, this amendment that he has offered would violate the Byrd rule in the Senate.

What kind of nation do we choose to live in?

Did the President do that? Did he watch in joy as was evidenced by video while the insurrection was occurring?

What do we say to the world? And again, my question, what kind of nation do we live in or we want the world to know that we live in if we do not hold him accountable?

He clearly became an insurrection as President.

Just ask the question, has any other president, no matter where they`ve been impeached or not, been charged with insurrection and the tearing down the government?

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I mean this idea that saying there was actually no election fraud and that the president's lies incited the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6th, I mean that's not a profile in courage. That's just, you know, that's the truth.