As you acknowledge, Republicans had 2 years to do something about the deficit, and you acknowledge they did nothing. We just cut it by $300 billion.

I can't understand why anyone would be against that.

The political reality is we would have done it in the House. There was no way to get a bill through the filibuster in the Senate that is fully paid for.

Mr. President, I can't let the question rhetorically hang there. I would say to my colleague, first of all, for all of us who have been fighting this issue on a bipartisan basis--I think his bill has only got Republican sponsors on it, a…

I think most of the folks in my district who I represent, who have jobs today and would not have--I think we kind of agree some of them would not have jobs today--believe and would probably argue that it was worth it.

Make no mistake. Ukraine continues to face a daily nightmare of shelling, of pulling neighbors and countrymen out of mass graves, of families torn apart, and children going to school in basements, of fighting for their very existence.

Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…

I want to take a moment to commend the herculean effort that the Biden administration has led to impose unprecedented sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion.

I think we are anxious to know what more we can do, what more the Administration can do to make these sanctions even tougher, to make it even harder for Russia to operate.

Seven months into this war, Putin is not where he wanted to be, and that is thanks to the bravery of the Ukrainian people, to more than $15 billion of weapons from the United States, and a strong international coalition.

The Administration has been rolling out a new sanctions package on average every 6 weeks, and I would expect that pace to continue.

It is about silencing the guns of Putin's military. It is about ending the destruction of homes and hospitals, farms and schools.

Thanks to our relentless diplomacy, the U.K., the EU, Australia, Japan, and South Korea joined the United States in sanctioning Russian financial institutions.

We didn't cause this problem, but we are doing our best to ensure that our response to Putin does not worsen food insecurity further.

It's clear that, when it comes to food security, it's the United States that has been leading the global response.

While we will continue to tighten the noose on Russia's imperial ambitions, we will do so in a way that addresses the impact Putin's war is having on some of the world's most vulnerable populations.

We impose sanctions not to punish, but to constrain and ultimately change behavior.

We want to ensure that Russia can find no back door to obtain military equipment, to hide ill-gotten wealth, or to wield malign influence.