I agree with my colleague that we should stop politicizing this issue. All we have done for the last several months of this year is politicize this issue and every other major issue. Vote on Amendment No. 3073 I would like to ask for the…

Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 3073 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Scott] proposes an amendment numbered…

Mr. President, I want to say a quick thank you to my Budget Committee staff who have worked very hard over the past couple of weeks. They worked late nights, crunched the numbers, provided support to Republican offices on amendment…

I yield the remaining Republican time on the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right.

It is good to be back. Thank you for the inquiries about my well-being. To all my colleagues, I appreciate the good wishes and the phone calls and the food. I made it. I think the worst is behind me. I want to reinforce a simple message…

I think we ought to do it even if we’re going to get it done in August.

It is a great, great day for the American people. We have been talking about infrastructure now for five years. And we finally got infrastructure day here in the United States.

I do not believe that you should apply the filibuster. Legislative issues? Fine. But on the Constitution, I do not think that it ought to be applied.

I call this the first leg on the three-legged stool which cannot be balanced until we get the second leg that they began discussion today, and the third leg is got to be voting rights.

Shutting our state down and closing schools and masking children who have no choice -- for the government to mask children who have no choice to protect adults who do have a choice is the wrong thing to do and we're not going to do it…

I think it is wrong, and not only do I think it is wrong, you can look at what is happening all across the country.

I cannot imagine something more important than safety in the place where you live.

I do not think about this from the politics of left and right. I think about this as average American people.

More than 80 percent of the African Americans... want the same level of policing, or more policing.

If we talk about defunding the police, we will lose in Georgia.

Not a single person. Not one.

Putting poor people in a place without security is immoral. It is wrong.

I will tell you that I will debate anybody on funding the people at a proper level any day, anywhere, at any time, period.