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the next vote is going to be a motion to discharge from the Judiciary Committee Judge Holly Thomas for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. I am going to vote no because I have not had the opportunity to actually meet Judge…
I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes prior to the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for up to 20 minutes and Senator Menendez for up to 5 minutes before the scheduled rollcall votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. (The…
it is Thursday. The Senate is still very busy here. We have a lot of work to do, as we are all trying to get home for the holidays. And I thought it was still the appropriate time to come down and talk about somebody who is making our…
I am pleased to be on the floor today with my colleagues, both the Senator from Iowa behind me and the Senator from California, because I want to thank them publicly for their leadership as they work to address these issues of domestic…
Well, thank you. Again, it takes a lot of people, and the years that Senator Ernst has been working this initiative on this side of the aisle is something that, again, we want to build on, and we need to build on it together. It has been…
I mentioned that I came to the floor to speak about a significant matter for Alaska. It is a significant milestone for my State. Just 2 days from now, on December 18, we will mark the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement…
I have come to this floor to speak on a matter that is very local to Alaska, very important to Alaska. But before I begin my comments, I want to acknowledge a few of the comments of my friend from Minnesota. Clearly, we share some of the…
I want to come down to the Senate floor and commend a number of Senators, but I want to particularly commend the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Reed, and the ranking member, Senator Inhofe, and their staff, and all the…
Reserving the right to object, Mr. President, I work very closely with my colleague from Rhode Island on many, many issues, and there is a pretty simple solution for my objection here, and it is related to judges, and it is related to the…
reserving the right to object. I have a simpler solution here, and I have already mentioned it. The White House has denied my ability to meet with one Ninth Circuit judge who just got confirmed. Let me meet with the next two, and then we…
this week, the Senate is going to take up three Ninth Circuit judges, three Federal judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. And in the process, the Biden administration is going to smash an institutional and…
It mentions in 2021, emergency room visits for suicide attempts by adolescent girls are 51 percent, 51 percent.
Right. So, but you agree with the surgeon general that people should limit their social media usage.
Do you have internal data relating to mental health and suicide and usage on your platform or Facebook or Meta?
One of his recommendations is to limit social media usage.
The surgeon general said our obligation is to act. It is not just medical; it is moral.
Do you make more money when people spend more time on your platform or less?