I would also note that it does not help the process that the President is late by a month in submitting his budget.

Are we at the point where we are risking an Air Force that is too small to accomplish the missions that it is assigned?

I am just very concerned that we not try to micromanage Israel's right to defend itself against a terrorist group backed by Iran.

I intend to draft legislation that would require our Military Services to report to the appropriate authorities when someone... poses a threat.

It is the role of Congress to ensure the American taxpayer dollars are used the most effective way possible to achieve superiority.

This budget request would result in a real decrease in funding available for the Air Force and Space Force.

Unfortunately, we then ran into roadblocks in getting the bills brought to the Senate floor.

the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, is the gold standard, just to get that on the record

Mr. President, I rise to provide a brief statement on the nomination votes on April 8, 2024. Had I been here for the vote on Monday, April 8, 2024, I would have voted in ``yea'' on vote No. 115, the motion to invoke cloture on Executive…

Thank you very much, Chairman Tester for holding this very important hearing.

Mr. President, it has been a long night and a long process, but we are on the verge of clearing the final six appropriations bills for this fiscal year, and that is an important milestone. I want to thank Chair Murray, the members of the…

Madam President, I rise today in support of the final six government funding bills before us. These bipartisan, bicameral bills are the result of many months of hard work by the Appropriations Committees in both the Senate and the House…

Mr. President, I very much appreciate the comments of the Senator from Nebraska. I agree with him that UNRWA cannot be the conduit for humanitarian aid. It is clear that it has been infiltrated by Hamas, and indeed Israeli intelligence…

Mr. President, first let me express my appreciation to the Senator from Nebraska. I will ask unanimous consent that a story from the Wall Street Journal on this very issue be printed in the Record. I would note that this story estimates…

Mr. President, before I suggest the absence of a quorum, I do want to just briefly respond to some of the comments that were made by my distinguished colleague from Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul, earlier. The first is that he is correct that…

The Embassy Construction Integrity Act is very simple: America's adversaries must not be involved in building our diplomatic and consular posts. This, in my opinion, is a commonsense bill, or at least it should be. Last year, Congress was…

this proposal is going in the wrong direction. Flexibility is what we need.

Tremendous opportunity for everybody, absolutely. But the issue of distribution of wealth, the wealth dividend, Senator, from AI, I know that is what we are really talking about here.