Yes, I mean, the vast majority of Republicans will do whatever Donald Trump wants, and he wants it to be Pete Hegseth.

I rise today to discuss an issue I have been working on for 23 years, the plight of America's Dreamers. I first introduced the DREAM Act more than two decades ago with Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, who was then the chairman of the Senate…

I think it was a good move to get Gaetz out of the nomination, because he clearly was going to crash and burn, and he shouldn't have been there in the first place. It was a horrific choice.

I thank Congressman Deluzio for convening this Special Order hour, and I am grateful it is on a topic that I believe is so critical to so many of the conversations that we are having right now. You are talking about babies still impacted…

I ask unanimous consent that the next and all subsequent rollcalls be 10 minutes in duration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call with respect to the Ali nomination cloture motion be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

He wants to have political control over the Justice Department, and she -- to Scott's point, I think she's fully -- fully, willing, able and capable of doing that.

I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 297 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. I rise today to celebrate National Rural Health Month and bring attention to rural healthcare challenges. In the communities that I am so proud to represent in central and southern Illinois…

it is often said that the greatest thing a leader can do is help nurture, shape, and create the next generation of leaders. Over the course of her life, Barbara Taylor Bowman--a pioneering force in early childhood education--did just that…

it was not too long ago that the phrase ``infrastructure week'' was little more than a punchline. Our roads and bridges were crumbling, our water systems were aging, and too many students were struggling to complete their homework…

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey, (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Butler), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the…

today, the Senate will vote to confirm Mustafa Kasubhai to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Judge Kasubhai received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Oregon School…

today, the Senate will vote to confirm Sarah F. Russell to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Born in Boston, MA, Russell earned her B.A., magna cum laude, at Yale College in 1998 and her J.D. at Yale Law School in…

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.

So we all know that the cost of food has gone up, making it more difficult for families to keep food on the table, and we also know that low income people face that. What are the nutrition programs that are part of this farm bill that will…

I see my colleague from Minnesota is on the floor, and I just want to say that this exchange is the reason why we are going to miss Senator Stabenow of Michigan when it comes to the Agriculture Committee and many other areas. She does her…

And the key to that, I think, goes back 60 years ago where we married nutrition programs and agriculture programs so that people living in the city of Chicago, for example, who hear over and over ``Illinois is an agricultural State'' but…