The threat emanating from China is from the CCP as they have become more aggressive in trying to undermine U.S. interests.

The CCP has aggressively pursued unfair economic practices like currency devaluation, the use of weak and inhumane labor standards, and in particular intellectual property theft.

It is indisputable that the Chinese Communist Party is the United States' greatest competitor on the world stage.

The CCP routinely uses espionage and cyber exploitation to steal American intellectual property, trade secrets, and even defense information.

The Goldman Act empowered the State Department to seek the return of American children, yet, the department, in my opinion, has not used the full of range of tools as Congress has intended.

Since the Goldman Act was enacted there has been a decline in the number of American children abducted overseas and that is a good news story.

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

If the function of lowering business taxes is to reward and induce investment that create jobs, then I can get behind that.

Let's make this a 'can.' We really do need those 30 gigawatts; we really do need these jobs.

I think if we're going to do this, we've got to come up with a budget reform that moves us to a stable, sensible debt to GDP.

I promise you Ranking Member Grassley, hearings in the future, on ways to save healthcare costs that don't require benefit cuts.

Unfortunately, we meet this morning in the shadow of the Republican Speaker's continuing threat to force a catastrophic U.S. default.

Mr. President, for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the RECORDS on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…

If there is any question about the integrity and character of these Justices, it really undermines the institution of the Court.

We heard unchallenged testimony from Moody's Chief Economist that the MAGA plan would cost the American economy almost 800,000 jobs and increase the chance of a recession.

I then called on him to rescue the reputation of the Court by simply taking action to respond to this well-documented outrage.

I believe he can, and I hope he will, step up, raise his hand, and say, 'That's the end of the special treatment for Supreme Court Justices.'

There's only one person in that room who was threatening to default on the credit of the United States.