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Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk on my behalf. I am also joined by Senators Loeffler, Cramer, Lee, and McSally. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senators Blackburn, Loeffler, Cramer, Lee, and McSally ask of counsel for the President: Is…
Mr. President, the impeachment trial of President Trump has devolved into a parade of last-minute red herrings meant to distract this body from the issue at hand. The near-hysteria over books, boredom, and beef jerky has provided a…
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Today, I had the opportunity to attend the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau celebration that was held at the United Nations. It was a stirring program with testimony from two…
I appreciate the gentleman for helping organize this evening. Mr. Speaker, today, as we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, it is important that we honor the 6 million…
Mr. President, today the Senate begins in earnest our efforts to determine if our colleagues in the House of Representatives have compiled sufficient evidence to justify removing a sitting President from office. This is no small task, and…
For almost half a century, we have watched our Nation dehumanize an entire group of people based on their age with the Roe decision allowing the killing of 60 million unborn children. This is the largest human rights violation of our time…
Mr. President, over the past few months, we have spent a great deal of time in this Chamber discussing our adversarial relationships with other countries, but today I want to draw attention to a truly great economic and foreign policy…
Madam President, we are in the wake of another global event or happening, if you will. No matter what it is, we always have people who come in on the back side and, as I say, are a bunch of armchair quarterbacks and Monday morning…
On December 28, 2019, the Jewish community in Monsey, New York, gathered together to celebrate Hanukkah. That celebration was cut short due to a vile, anti-Semitic attack leaving five people wounded and an entire nation in shock…
Mr. President, let me begin by saying that Paul Ray is a Tennesseean and that we are delighted he is being confirmed to the OIRA. He is qualified and will serve our Nation well in the future just as he has in the past.
It is the responsibility of the President and Congress to keep us safe, and the Founding Fathers knew that the collective wisdom of the people's Representatives was better at doing that than one person. I just visited the SCIF and there is…
Mr. President, for 3 years now, I have been hard at work alongside an administration that prioritizes filling vacancies on the Federal bench with smart, dedicated, constitutionalist judges. When I am at home in Tennessee, that is what…
Madam President, I have come to the floor today to start this new year by really encouraging my friends on each side of the aisle to approach this coming legislative session with some optimism because there are some good things we can do…
I thank Ranking Member Brady for yielding. I thank Ranking Member Brady and Chairman Neal for their hard work on this agreement. We know that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is vital to our Nation's economy and my home State of Tennessee…
I want to just say today that I live in the State of Tennessee, and in Tennessee, we are a fiscally responsible State. We have the lowest per capita debt in the Nation. We have no income tax at all. We have no investment income tax. When a…
Congress authorized a group of coal miners' multiemployer pension plans under problematic rules, allowing them to underfund the plans by over 70 percent, but all the while, those pensions still promised their workers full benefits, setting…
Madam President, reserving the right to object, this is clearly an effort to push through last-minute changes on a single bill. In my view, these changes are reckless, unnecessary, and unwise, and in any event they were made without debate…
Mr. President, it is December, so America's attention turns once again to the great debate of our times: What is the best Christmas movie? Is it ``White Christmas,'' maybe ``Elf,'' ``A Christmas Story,'' ``Home Alone,'' or ``Die Hard''…