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Ultimately, Mr. Chairman, extreme MAGA Republicans are the biggest threat to our national and economic security...

This will have huge benefits for the Federal taxpayer.

We are safer, the world is safer, when the United States is leading.

This is essential funding that our allies need and our security relies upon.

I look at the world and see great dangers.

I just will happen to be in Vienna on vacation and will visit you. But I'm not a part of the delegation.

This bipartisan bill creates a Good Steward Cover Crop Program to subsidize farmers who use cover crops.

Protecting U.S. farmland from being gobbled up by foreign adversaries is a matter of national security.

This bipartisan bill would establish a partnership between the Federal Government and the private-sector to create voluntary interconnectivity standards.

I was also very excited to see that 100 percent of the obligated IRA dollars made it into the hands of farmers in Illinois.

I led a letter with Congresswoman Pingree and Congressman Costa, along with all the Democrats on the Committee, outlining our shared priority to protect the Inflation Reduction Act climate-smart conservation funds.

He's the one making the decisions and, you know, fair or unfair. And I think it's unfair, obviously, in comparison to Donald Trump, but Donald Trump appears very energetic.

Joe Biden, I think can be pretty funny. And I think it's -- it's, you know, talk about it, be serious, be a serious man which he is. But I think fine times to joke about it. And then obviously pivot back to the fact that his opponent is…

I think it is the way to handle it. I think they need to -- look, this isn't something that is going to go out of the minds of voters. It's not like if you talk about something else, people are going to forget that he's advanced age.

At some point you need to see them take advantage, or else it doesn't really matter.

My last question, of course, relates to the aftermath if we abandon Ukraine. I have a special connection and affection for the Baltic nations as well as Poland, which is so ably represented in the State of Illinois and city of Chicago. We…

I would like to ask the Senator through the Chair again: In this circumstance, we have seen the revival, in my estimation, of an alliance which was so important 50 or 60 years ago and now is critical, and that is the NATO alliance. We have…

As a student of history, I am sure the Senator remembers, as I do, the lengthy ordeal when the British came to us before World War II and begged us to come to their assistance, and we waited and we waited. We came up with an alternative…