I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 56 Leg.] YEAS--48 Banks Barrasso…

Mr. President, on a separate topic, later this week, Senate Republicans have scheduled a vote on the confirmation of Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI Director. It is a 10-year appointment, unusual by Senate standards, but it…

Mr. President, in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain touted the now-infamous Munich Agreement as a way to stave off Hitler's Nazi Germany. Prime Minister Chamberlain claimed it would ``secure peace in our time.'' A year…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 614 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Leg.] YEAS--50 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins…

I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Ex.] YEAS--52 Banks Barrasso…

President Trump's first Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, once said: If we don't fully fund the State Department and diplomacy abroad, I need to buy more ammunition. Apparently, Elon Musk, a newly minted oligarch with $20 billion in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, last week, my colleague, Haley Stevens, and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act. I am going to get to that in a minute. I woke up this morning to find that apparently this bill had…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 579 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

I commend President Trump for his steps to close down the Department of Education and to return power back to the parents. For too long the Department of Education has overstepped its bounds, imposing top-down policies that have done more…

Mr. President, if you go back exactly 20 years ago today, I could tell you exactly where I was. I was a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I was staring at the beige-colored walls. And amidst the pain in every inch of my body, I…

Mr. President, the greatest threat to American prosperity is not food aid to kids in Sudan or a diverse workforce; the greatest threat to our country is the abuse of power by a small group of people--an unelected group of people--who…

Mr. President, I yield 30 minutes of postcloture debate time to the Democratic leader. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right. The Senator from Nevada.

I thank the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore) for her remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner).

Mr. President, I listened to my colleague and friend from Wyoming, and I am struggling to understand his point of view. He announced at one point that the Republicans were in the majority in the House and Senate. Well, that is a fact. I…

Mr. President, do you remember where you were on September 11? Most Americans do. I do. I was right outside that door. I was in a meeting at 9 in the morning. And as we had the meeting, we looked down the Mall. We were watching a little…

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois has 18 minutes remaining.