Clearly if you can get paid $300 per child, even though the child is here illegally and you are here illegally, that is going to encourage people to come here.

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

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 Nation has…

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 people, vote…

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. The amendment…

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 that in some…

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 topic we are…

Hope is not a strategy.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Even with no troops there?