Mr. President, earlier today, when the President of the United States issued a statement about the Pelosi-Nadler-Schiff bill purporting to but utterly failing to meaningfully reform the three expiring foreign intelligence surveillance…

Mr. President, they spied on the President of the United States. They used the apparatus of the U.S. Government's superb intelligence gathering agencies to spy on then-Candidate Donald Trump, now President of the United States. They did so…

Mr. President, I appreciate the care, attention, and detail shown by my friend and colleague, the distinguished senior Senator from North Carolina. I do disagree with him for 10 independent reasons. No. 1, as to the suggestion that the…

Mr. President, you might notice a pattern here. This pattern is going to continue. This pattern is going to continue because this is unjust. This is unrealistic. This is unsustainable. This used to be a body that prided itself on being the…

Mr. President, I will have to tell you and all of my colleagues, as they probably know, this has been a fairly tough month for my fellow Tennesseans. As you know, last week, a tornado tore through eight counties. This started in West…

Mr. President, as I begin my remarks today, I express my thanks to my colleagues here in this Chamber and, certainly, all across Capitol Hill who have extended their thoughts and their prayers and have asked ``How are you doing?'' when it…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tennessee Tornadoes

Madam President, it is disappointing that when we take a look at something that is controversial like abortion and we peel it back a layer further, we make it noncontroversial by making the discussion about something that most…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 3259 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. I further ask that the bill be considered read a third…

Madam President, I come to the floor today to say that we have gotten some good news this week from our Southern border. We are making progress on the wall that President Trump has fought so hard for, and that progress will be further…

Mr. President, I appreciate the opportunity to address these important issues today. I thank my friend and colleague from Oregon for outlining his reasons for objecting to this legislation. I feel the need to respond to a few things that…

Mr. President, in a message to Congress on July 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln wrote that the leading object of government was to ``elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable…

I strongly support the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. I will be proud to vote in favor of it on the House floor today. I have continuously fought against racial violence and racial discrimination, and this legislation is an important step…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong support of H.J. Res. 79, which takes a key step to ensure that the equal rights amendment will become part of our Constitution. Nearly 100 years after women gained the right to vote, it…

Madam President, I have great respect for my distinguished colleague from Alaska, and I appreciate his service to our country and his thoughts today. I stand in opposition to his amendment because, if there is one thing we don't need right…

Madam President, I move to table the Sullivan amendment, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the…

Mr. President, I rise today to support my colleague, Senator Kaine, in support of this resolution before us, a resolution that would prohibit the United States from conducting offensive military strikes against Iran unless or until some…

Mr. President, I would like to articulate the reason for the objection to the legislation brought forward by the minority. You would think that, after spending weeks in this Chamber litigating the finer points of their disagreements with…