Well, the $3.5 trillion number is a shocking figure.

Madam President, this past weekend, we gathered to reflect on the anniversary of a national tragedy. The visible and invisible wounds incurred on that day continue to impact the lives of all of us. In the last two decades since 9/11, our…

I, for one, thought some years ago that we should withdraw from Afghanistan. The conditions that I saw in the ensuing years convinced me that I was wrong.

You said, yesterday, that you inherited a date, but in fact, you did not inherit the date.

I appreciate your willingness to change your point of view in part because of the conditions that have developed in the most recent weeks.

Given that response, I know that previously the position of the Administration and the State Department was that the 2001 AUMF no longer played a role of significance.

I would like to associate myself with the comments that Senator Rubio made about planning for a potential immediate collapse of the Afghan Government and security forces.

I thought President Trump was wrong to enter into an agreement to withdraw. I thought President Biden was wrong to enter into an agreement--or to continue with that agreement to withdraw.

I guess I would like to focus more on the moral stain of leaving people behind and understand what we can do to make sure that we are not leaving people behind.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to simply tell my team thank you for the work that they have been putting in in the last several weeks. The individuals that work in our Washington, D.C. and our Ogden, Utah, district offices are truly the unsung…

Mr. President, my amendment is very simple. It eliminates the instruction to the Senate Finance Committee whereupon people would be able to have their taxes increased. If you want to have taxes go up in this country on corporations or…

Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 3652 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Utah [Mr. Romney] proposes an amendment numbered 3652…

Mr. President, it is said that politics is the art of the possible, and I am afraid that, over time, someone might argue that politics has become the art of confusion. There is so much confusion that goes on around issues of significance…

Madam President, the remarks of my colleague from North Dakota have inspired me to stand and join him; and also the fact that we are in a room of great significance and silence reigns, and I hate just to fill it with words, but I think the…

Even with no troops there?

Given the fact that you are convinced that the Biden administration will not misuse this AUMF...

I think, in reality, we are talking about two.

I am focused on the word replaced.