This is why it's important. Earlier this week, I had a classified briefing on the threat – the worldwide threats to homeland – to our homeland.

everyone is here tonight voting on a provision to treat fairly our retired police officers, firefighters, and teachers. We should do that. The windfall elimination provision treated them unfairly. I have been fighting to correct this since…

Still I rise, Mr. Speaker, very honored and very proud to stand here and have this preeminent opportunity to speak for 1 minute. Mr. Speaker, I speak tonight with an expression of gratitude because this is the season of giving and the…

I call up my amendment No. 3360 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Texas [Mr. Cruz] proposes…

it is hardly breaking news that this is December 20--5 days before Christmas, a day celebrated by 2 billion people throughout the world. It is also the last day of the 118th Congress, and there is no better time than the present to take…

I was absent during the time of votes due to illness. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 517, H.R. 10545, American Relief Act 2025. ____________________

Reserving the right to object, Mr. President, I want to thank my friend from West Virginia for his hard work on this very important matter. I support the objective of this legislation. I also appreciate the commitment that the Senator from…

When I ran for Congress in 2018, the debt was $21 trillion. I was just texting with my son back home in Austin, who I haven't seen in quite a long time because I am here trying to fight for him. When I got through cancer about 12 years…

I do not. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection--Merry Christmas--it is so ordered. The bill (H.R. 6492) was ordered to a third reading, was read the third time, and passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.

only the AFD can save Germany.

last week, I came to the floor to speak about a new acronym that we are becoming more and more familiar with-- DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency--that will be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. One of the priorities I am…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Without objection, it is so ordered. Department of Defense

I thank my friend the Senator from West Virginia who is standing here--we are standing here together--with a bipartisan plea to the Senate to act in a reasonable, fiscally responsible way. Senator Manchin and I are also, in a bipartisan…

I thank my friend from West Virginia, and I urge the body to listen to the very reasonable words from the Senator from West Virginia. I will say, the Senator from West Virginia is retiring in just a few days. We are going to miss Joe…

I thank my colleague from Connecticut for offering the unanimous consent request by which we passed these various bills. I just want to discuss the Big Bend National Park Boundary Act. Texas is home to very diverse terrain, which includes…

I am like you with whatever pact you all made. We didn't want him to leave, but do you think his beautiful bride, Laura, had something to say about that?

I thank Chairman Babin for his great remarks, his heartfelt words, because he shares the sentiment of all of us, Dr. Michael Burgess. I yield to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas) for his remarks.

I thank the gentleman, Brother Weber, for you bringing tonight this conversation that Members of Congress on a bipartisan basis can have about the gentleman from Texas, Michael Burgess. I am one of a few Members that remember well when he…