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Mr. President, I rise today to honor a departing member of my team. This is the first time in 7 years that I am delivering a farewell speech regarding one of my team members that wasn't written by my speechwriter, Mike McKiernan, because…

Do you agree that trade relationship with China and the enormous number of supply chain factories that moved from the U.S. to China helped accelerate China's path to wealth and power?

Madam President, I have 11 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the…

I just wish it did not take 2 days to get a Congressional Delegation halfway around the world to start those meetings.

We have China engaged in slave labor with the kind of a million Uyghurs; we have them taking away the Tibetan children to boarding schools when they are just 5 or 6 years old.

I just wish it did not take 2 days to get a Congressional Delegation halfway around the world to start those meetings.

Do you agree that trade relationship with China and the enormous number of supply chain factories that moved from the U.S. to China helped accelerate China's path to wealth and power?

We have China engaged in slave labor with the kind of a million Uyghurs; we have them taking away the Tibetan children to boarding schools when they are just 5 or 6 years old.

We are going to recognize next our distinguished colleague from Massachusetts. I just want to say, Senator Casey has made, as is usually the case, an eloquent argument that preventing default and standing up for the most vulnerable people…

Mr. President, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, I am pleased to be joining my colleagues on the Senate floor today to discuss the importance of Medicaid to American families. Right now, Republicans in the House of…

Mr. President, before she leaves, I would like to thank my colleague for an eloquent statement that really lays this case out, and I am going to try to pick up now where you left it, and I thank you for it. These compelling arguments from…

Well said, and my time is up. Going all the way back to those conversations that began in June 2012, we always said that the needs of workers and energy security and a sensible climate policy, these were not mutually exclusive. We could…

I am very troubled about the fact that after we made all that progress over ten years, we still get held up in red tape and bureaucracy.

This is the biggest investment in climate, and as Chairman Manchin has always talked about, a sensible energy policy for the future.

Well said, and my time is up. Going all the way back to those conversations that began in June 2012, we always said that the needs of workers and energy security and a sensible climate policy, these were not mutually exclusive. We could…

I am very troubled about the fact that after we made all that progress over ten years, we still get held up in red tape and bureaucracy.

We are going to have to bring together Democrats and Republicans, as Chairman Manchin talks about.