We need to ensure that they can continue to protect their territorial integrity.

We need to ensure that we are going to stand up and support our allies.

What Elon Musk and this administration have done is to unilaterally stop our programs that are providing critical foreign assistance.

We were unanimous in our support for Ukraine, for continuing the fight against Russia.

What we're doing is leaving a vacuum for China and Russia.

Russia is really the aggressor here, and we need to hold Vladimir Putin accountable.

We need to ensure that the United States is not going to walk away.

We should have done more earlier.

Many outlets in this room have been fear-mongering people into believing there is a constitutional crisis...

I was very upfront in my briefing on Day 1 that if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable.

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 legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 28, as…

The whole hearing right now feels kind of surreal to me. It’s almost like we’re being subjected to a very elegant gaslighting.

Elon will excuse himself from those contracts.

And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I’m not sure why news outlets don’t want to call it that.

It's the golden rule, which we all learned when we were growing up in school: Treat others the way you want to be treated.

I rise today to join my colleagues, to join the many Granite Staters who have written my office and expressed their grave alarm in opposing the nomination of Mr. Kennedy as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Robert F…

the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch

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