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At no point in American history has the judiciary considered the surgical or chemical castration of healthy children to be a compelling or even legitimate health concern and it shouldn’t start now. We must protect our children from…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 47, as…

Congress, not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, should be making our laws. Article I, section 7 of the Constitution requires nothing less. And yet we generate about 100,000 pages of new laws a year. This is choking the American people…

I call up my amendment No. 922 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Utah [Mr. Lee] proposes an…

article II of the U.S. Constitution declares the President of the United States to be the person who holds the executive power. He has the discretion to hire and fire those who work in executive branch Agencies. Now, for decades, staffing…

reducing energy costs for all Americans starts with reducing rent pay to develop our energy resources. If we built more gas pipelines, if we built more powerplants, more transmission lines, it will lower costs for consumers across the…

I have eight requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

today, after 4 years of reckless spending and decades of high inflation under the Biden-Harris administration, our national debt now sits at $36.4 trillion. In many ways, this number represents one of the biggest threats to our Nation, as…

There's a difference between members of the greatest generation… risking their life to serve our country, and young staffers going in with their computers.

There's a difference between civil service and checks and balances, in place of a small group and politicals who are going in.

Congress better get some guts and start backing [DOGE] up, or the next president could undo everything that's done.

The case is just a tremendous miscarriage of justice, in my opinion.

We need to look at where those federal highway dollars are spent and placing them in areas with growing needs.

People are leaving some of these blue states and coming to places like Tennessee.

I find it so interesting how people are watching so closely to see what this administration does, and I have been so pleased to see that the polling shows, by an overwhelming amount, 70 percent of the American people agree with how…

As it stands, I think it falls short … but it’s work in progress, and we’ll keep working on it.