Mr. President, I come to the floor to reflect on the troubling foreign policy 1 year into President Donald Trump's administration. A recent poll out from Gallup showed a dramatic reduction in global public opinion toward the United States…

We have the power under the Constitution to promote the progress of science and useful arts, and we should exercise that power, because, today, our regime stifles musical creativity.

I want to salute Mr. Collins and Mr. Jeffries and all of the members of the committee.

Musicians have to make a livelihood like everybody else.

I love the idea of combining the Music Modernization Act and the CLASSICS Act and the Fair Play Fair Pay Act into a comprehensive statutory bill of rights for musical artists and songwriters and other people in the music industry.

Mr. President, I want to start my remarks today by focusing on a serious threat to our national security, and that is North Korea's nuclear program--both its nuclear weapons program as well as its missile program. At this moment the United…

In terms of your planning, does it make your planning harder? And does that lead to some inefficiencies in terms of your ability to hire when you need to hire?

very, very disturbed that the Trump administration reneged on the longstanding plan to consolidate the FBI campus in a way that would provide a more secure setting.

what we saw was borrowing, $1.5 trillion to give windfall tax breaks to corporations.

Back in 2016, during the campaign, Candidate Trump called himself the 'King of Debt.' It is pretty clear that this is one of the promises he has kept as President of the United States.

the reality is it is fewer than in any year since 2011.

the first year of the Trump administration deregulation brought all this added economic growth.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman, but I am looking at the chart, and I am looking at President Trump's statement.

I think it is an outrageous decision and an anti-consumer decision.

I would like to see the same transparency in their methodology that we are requiring of CBO in theirs, and JCT.

Mr. Chairman, with all respect, we have just heard that we are going to face close to a $2 trillion revenue shortfall as a direct result of what was passed.

I am grateful for somebody being able to take an objective look at this and provide an analysis that we can use.

I just hope members will understand the consequences of their action with respect to actually saving taxpayers' money and providing an important benefit to our kids' health.