Mr. President, yesterday, I went to the Senate floor to ask unanimous consent on the DETER Act, bipartisan legislation that I authored alongside Senator Rubio that is languishing in the Senate legislative graveyard. The DETER Act is…

Mr. President, I join my colleagues on the floor today to point out that 2 years ago, we had an opportunity in the Congress to reform the Tax Code. The Tax Code, basically, was the one enacted in 1986. In 2017, we had an opportunity to…

I want to thank the ranking member for his service and the chairman for his service. I also want to thank the staff. It has been an extraordinarily arduous, sleep-depriving and angst-creating process, I know, to get this bill from this…

Madam President, I hope we will get down to the serious business of legislating. As I indicated in the hearings that have been held in the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, there was overwhelming support for…

Madam President, I want to address some of the comments made by the chairman of the Banking Committee and start by saying that I have appreciated the conversations he and I have had on this legislation over the years. Let me just address…

Madam President, I thank the minority leader. As he indicated, the Russian Foreign Minister, Foreign Minister Lavrov, is in town. There is a report saying that Secretary Pompeo said to the Russians: Don't interfere in our elections…

Madam President, after a discussion that we will have on the Senate floor, I intend to ask unanimous consent that the Senate pass S. 1060, which is a bipartisan piece of legislation called the DETER Act. What is the DETER Act? The DETER…

I object to the motion to lay on the table. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard. Motion to Reconsider

There is a reason that the Digital Coast Act is bipartisan and bicameral: We all have a stake in protecting our shorelines. Our country's 95,000 miles of shoreline--not just our oceans, but our rivers, streams, and lakes--are home to more…

I thank the chairman of the Judiciary Committee for yielding me time, and I thank him for his leadership. And, of course, I thank Terri Sewell, who is from Selma, Alabama, who has been a fighter for voting rights all of her life. I thank…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, what he said was he thought there was, in fact, a quid pro quo. Of course, as the gentleman points out, he had a bias: a substantial contributor to Mr. Trump, appointed by Mr. Trump as…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. One of the facets of this conversation always is that, I believe, the Republican whip adopts premises that are not supported by the evidence. Ambassador Sondland, a contributor of $100,000, maybe more…

Apparently he got $391 million to say he wasn't intimidated. The witnesses to which the Republican whip referred, 75 percent of those witnesses, three out of four, said they believed that the offenses that were testified to by some members…

The gentleman said he was in my position of not having a lot of information, yet he makes conclusions, assertions, and accusations that I believe are not based in fact. He continues the process argument that the Republicans have made over…

What we do know, by the facts, is that the President abused his power. The gentleman does not want to speak to that, Madam Speaker. We do know the facts that were testified to in the committee. The gentleman, like the President, seeks to…

I will say to the gentleman that I don't accept his premise that Mr. Schiff or the committee spied on anybody. They do have records, apparently. The gentleman asked me how deep my knowledge is. And I will tell him, frankly, not very deep…

The answer is, I hope so. As the gentleman probably knows, we have made some proposals back. Mr. Neal has talked to representatives from the Mexican Government about this and representatives of the Canadian Government about the enforcement…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I apologize for a little bit of lateness here. On Monday, Madam Speaker, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed until 6:30…