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The Senator from Ohio was not here on January 6, and your political affiliation mattered that day. It mattered that day. Those rioters were here to harm not allies of President Trump but opponents of President Trump. They had the gallows…
I abhor attacks on police officers--all police officers--and no matter the motive. But that is not the position of Republicans in the Senate. On the day that President Trump was sworn into office, he pardoned scores of violent felons who…
The president is in the Middle East, in order to collect tribute from these countries.
I ask that you provide such evidence to the Committee no later than May 21.
I understand he has that power. Regardless of whether he has that power, do you agree with his decision?
Let's decide it was not OK for Donald Trump to let the people who brutally beat police officers out of jail early. Let's find common cause right now. That would be in service of preventing violence against police officers in the future…
the chairman and I share a bipartisan commitment to putting our veterans first, including providing them with the kind of memorial and cemetery recognition that they have well earned. There is no difference between us on that point. And I…
You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One.
My hair has been on fire about the meme coin from day one
a lot of Americans are watching this spectacle: a $400 million gift from Qatar, which President Trump has called a ``palace in the sky.'' It would be for his personal use now and then afterward when he is a private citizen. And they are…
usually, public corruption happens in secret. The politicians that do it know it is wrong to accept money in exchange for favorable government treatment, and so they hide it until they are found out. A textbook example would be Louisiana…
for the last 5 months, across the country, people have been waiting with bated breath to see what this big, beautiful bill is that the Republicans have been working on behind closed doors, much of it down in Florida putting it together…
it was already the most corrupt thing a president has ever done in the history of the United States.
That is a level of corruption that is just absolutely stunning.
The slope to despotism can be slippery and quick.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the power to arbitrarily imprison people who oppose the regime.
I want to come to the floor today to talk about a success story but, potentially, a success story interrupted. Back in 2022, we all were shocked to watch news playing out during an afternoon that we were here, working in the Senate, of…