I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds…

I will reiterate the extent to which this motto came directly from a quote from President Lincoln at his Second Inaugural Address at a particularly important and historic moment in our Nation's history. That was the point. The literal…

This amendment prohibits any of the funding in the MILCON-VA appropriations bill from being used to carry out President Biden's executive orders on climate change. I was gratified to have offered a similar amendment and to see it adopted…

I have an amendment that prohibits any of the MILCON-VA funding appropriated from being used to modify or remove any VA display of the original mission statement. Now, just a quick second before I go there. I didn't reserve my time because…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. 419. None of the funds made…

I would only respond to the gentlewoman from Florida when she said it only applies to healthcare personnel. I just rattled off an entire list of virtually every known possible human being and job that could apply at the VA, and a whole lot…

This amendment that I am offering prohibits any of the funding in the MILCON-VA appropriations bill from being used to carry out what I believe are unnecessary and unscientific COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the Department of Veterans…

I call up my amendment No. 421, and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Texas [Mr. Cruz] proposes an amendment numbered 421 to…

last December, Marine Gen. David Berger stated the obvious, that the Department of Defense's COVID vaccine mandate hurt recruiting and hurt retention. For several weeks now, our Democratic colleagues have been saying that military…

I am here to address another way in which gender ideology destroys women and girls, and that is by dissolving legal protections for women in athletics.

No school is going to want to take on that litigation risk.

Unfortunately, in April of this year, the Department of Education proposed a rule that, if adopted, would flip Title 9 on its head.

Don't you think that we should be outraged about the thousands dying from fentanyl that's coming across the border under your watch?

So, the American should know how many grants and contracts are awarded to the NGO's. That's a fair request, right?

If our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund an operation whereby we're encouraging illegal immigration, we're encouraging through funding these organizations people to make these deadly treks across our Southern border, it seems to me…

It's hard to argue that we're manufacturing outrage when we look at these incredible, sad things happening under your watch.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services reported it received 179 million dollars in U.S. Government grants.

Just to be specific, Catholic Charities received over 1.4 billion dollars from the United States taxpayers for their operations encouraging illegal immigration.