Mr. President, I rise to express my support for the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. I am pleased, as we all are, that we will be voting soon on passage. I would like to thank Ranking Member Inhofe for his leadership…

Mr. President, for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding and thank him for his extraordinary bipartisan leadership on this issue and on so many issues that come before our committee. I want to begin by acknowledging the leadership of the Speaker who…

Mr. President, I think we have concluded this matter for the evening, and I am sorry that it has ended this way because Mr. Bonilla and Ms. Lerner are essentially collateral damage in a fight that does not involve the Court of Federal…

Mr. President, I am here on the floor to ask for some courtesy for a pair of nominees. These are nominees to the Court of Federal Claims, which is the court to which citizens can come with claims against the Federal Government. In the…

In the spirit of ``what goes around comes around,'' let me just say that the First Circuit is a good deal smaller than the Ninth Circuit. My State of Rhode Island is in the First Circuit. We didn't have many vacancies during the Trump…

Well, thank you. I concur.

a critical part of our economy is the ability of the Federal Reserve to control money supply.

Well, thank you very much. And one other aspect is that this is a novel, or at least a fairly recent, phenomenon and it requires a great deal of thought, analysis, and projecting as to what we should do.

Madam President, on military justice reform, I am pleased that the NDAA that we will consider this week will enact sweeping and historic reform that changes how sexual assault and other offenses are investigated and prosecuted in the Armed…

The dangers to our coasts are very, very real. The environmental upheaval that is happening along our coasts is very, very real.

This has to be that day. I have been here quite a while now, and I have been fobbed off and fobbed off and fobbed off over and over again.

There is a huge discrepancy between what inland States get and what coastal States get if you adjust for population.

If we don't figure out the allocation issues for the revenues coming from the new, from offshore wind and everything else, we will never get ahead of it.

I am preparing a bill to change the name of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the Upland and Freshwater Conservation Fund.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the National Defense Authorization Act. I begin by congratulating and thanking Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Rogers, as well as my…

Mr. President, I just want to thank my colleague Senator Cotton and my chairman Senator Durbin for the way in which that resolved itself. For a minute, we actually feel like a Senate here.

You see that Trump has got these candidates in his Trump slate that he`s trying to move into Georgia, and that`s one issue.