The Gaza ceasefire will be the break point where we can do something really important in both directions.

But you cannot fill in. USAID cannot fill in for the gap that has been created.

My impression is that since the chairman's hold has been in place the Egyptian government has really failed to engage in any meaningful cooperation with the United States.

We are going to convene the subcommittee today to discuss the fiscal year 2025 budget request for the Middle East and North Africa.

Well, it signals desperation, frankly. I mean, if Vladimir Putin who believes that he runs the inheritor of the Russian Empire, of the Soviets, is forced to go hat in hand to a country where the GDP per capita is $1,000 per person per…

No, he's not. He's far weaker than he seems. And sadly, I think to some extent the American media is complicit in this.

So, yes, of course, it's a danger. It's a danger that my Republican friends like to play up, even though in 30 years there has not been a single terrorist fatality engineered by an undocumented alien.

Well, it's certainly true. I mean, people are using a lot of bombastic language.

But yeah, there's lots of Ukrainians dying because China and India in particular, but other countries are purchasing Russian energy.

But the Connecticut families whom I know sought to shut down that operation Infowars and free speech systems

the families have been through a really tough week, I will say. I've talked to a number of them because their children would have graduated this week from high school

the families, I think will continue to pursue not only assets but also justice insofar as they are seeking to not silence him necessarily but deprive him of the huge system and set of assets that he uses to broadcast this stuff

the Supreme Court today struck down the Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks

when I introduced the Women's Health Protection Act a little more than 10 years ago, the idea that Roe v. Wade might be reversed was unthinkable--in fact, unimaginable. We are living now in the post-Dobbs era, which is one of horror and…

let me ask permission, if there is no objection, that Amanda Padgett--Senator Merkley's intern--be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I want to thank my colleagues Senator Durbin and Senator Whitehouse. I have been proud to be part of their team in working for the most minimal kind of ethical standards for the highest Court in the land. Right now, that Court has no…

Again, could you comment, again, on that ruling, which actually was about restoring a 40-year precedent...

the annual Gallup Poll still shows that labor is in a far stronger position with the American public than it has maybe 10 or 15 years ago.