I missed all votes today due to a doctor's appointment. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 336 and YEA on Roll Call No. 337. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I think my colleague is not representing the amendment very correctly. This amendment does not defund the full U.N., which we probably should, considering what happened. It just defunds programs that we did not explicitly authorize…

I think our national interest is to make sure that taxpayers' funds are really achieving goals in our best interest. Unfortunately, organizations like the U.N. being corrupt actually sabotage, diminish, and work against our national…

Assistant Secretary Leaf, you referenced this concept of the Palestinian Authority returning to Gaza.

Last week's nominations hearing was a good opportunity to look at some of the challenges in the Middle East and North Africa.

Assistant Secretary Leaf, you referenced this concept of the Palestinian Authority returning to Gaza.

Last week's nominations hearing was a good opportunity to look at some of the challenges in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mr. President, I rise today--I have done this several times since I have been here in the Senate. It is always an honor to do it. When something is that important, I think it is worth repeating. I am rising today to offer a resolution…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

They're even not waiting on this place to pay for it since we're borrowing 30 cents on every dollar that we spend currently.

Much of it, I've observed, business has expected our school systems to spit it out.

How much has government policy been a factor in making it more or less difficult?

It wasn't our policy that initiated the fact that we've pretty well said we don't want to use coal anymore?

It's imperative that young people understand this along with their parents or else we will miss opportunities.

Something has occurred to where anything that you're extracting out of the ground, we just have been lagging on it.

Strengthening America's critical minerals helps to reduce our reliance on getting these materials from adversarial countries.

Critical minerals have been regarded as the building blocks of U.S. economic and national security.