I ask unanimous consent that any Democratic Senator be allowed to call up amendments and the tree be set aside for that purpose. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

This is interesting. This is interesting what has happened. They are now opposed to even Democratic Senators calling up amendments and making those pending. Why is that? Well, it appears to be, again, this consolidation of power. The…

Mr. President, today I am asking my colleagues to support my motion to table the motion to recommit. Now, even for seasoned Senators, this sounds like a lot of technical language, and it kind of is; so let's put it in perspective and…

My friend and colleague from the State of Washington makes the point that we need to show unity. Now, nothing says unity quite like shutting out the majority of the minority party from having any say in amendments, from having even a…

Madam President, what else is there to say? We shouldn't be doing these things. We certainly shouldn't be doing them with reckless disregard for the very serious problems that we are creating, for the very serious existing problems that we…

OK. There are serious problems with that. Again, we hear words like ``MAGA'' and ``extremists'' coming out. I resent both characterizations. I even more resent the notion that because she disagrees with the views of some Members of this…

Well, that is too bad. This time, with this amendment, we see an objection, and with this amendment, we are talking about something that is a core part of what the bill actually does. In no way is it extraneous. In my view, we shouldn't…

Ah, here we see it. So on the ``MAGA extremists''--an extremist for saying that maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be paying the salaries of Ukrainian bureaucrats to the tune of $8 billion for an entire year; maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't…

There we have it. Keep in mind, what you have just witnessed is my making a motion not to pass this into law, not even a motion to accept this as an amendment to the text. I just asked for consent to call up the amendment and make it…

Madam President, I rise today because Senate Republicans made a commitment last fall, not so very long ago, a commitment that we made to each other and that we made to the American people. That commitment was simple. It was one that said…

That is too bad, Madam President. As we just saw, my Democratic colleague just blocked an amendment--not just blocked the amendment from becoming law, not just blocked the amendment from becoming a part of the bill that we are debating…

Mr. President, there have been a lot of discussions over the last few days about a bill--a bill many months in the making; a bill that has been discussed, debated, and drafted, largely in secret. We saw it for the first time Sunday…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am pleased to join you because this is such an important topic and a topic that I have been talking about for a long time. The income inequality in our country has grown and grown, and the tax cuts of…

I will address some of the, at a minimum, misinformation that has been provided by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. This notion that Republicans have somehow cut Border Patrol is absolutely false. In fact, it has been the…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Tennessee has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Mississippi has 12 minutes remaining.

May I inquire how much time is remaining on each side. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Tennessee has 37\1/4\ minutes. The gentleman from Mississippi has 39\3/4\ minutes.

The skullduggery of the Speaker of the House was on display today. He has no real interest in helping Israel. He has interest in scoring political points with Donald Trump. He used Israel to do that today, and he did it a month ago. A…

May I inquire how much time remains for each side. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. DesJarlais). The gentleman from Tennessee has 22\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Mississippi has 24 minutes remaining.