I urge all of my colleagues to support this good bill to help ensure that children in foster care are in safe, appropriate homes. I further urge my colleagues to work with us to stop these indiscriminate, illegal layoffs and funding cuts…

Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 57. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

Cutting funds for these programs is a slap in the face to Illinois farmers and the communities they feed.

I have been honored to serve in the U.S. Senate for a number of years, and I carry with that service a great number of memories. But there is one that is particularly personal that I will never forget. The year was 2021, and the day was…

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. 816 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives…

At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. According to the Arms Control Association, this included approximately 1,900 strategic warheads, 176…

I want to thank my colleague from Hawaii. If he can spare 30 seconds, I would like to tell him a story. Years ago, I went to India to the dusty villages--not the big cities--just to see what USAID was doing. I heard about it. I wanted to…

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. 819 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives…

I announce that the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso Blackburn…

I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

Mr. Bove’s conduct not only speaks to his fitness as a lawyer; his activities are part of a broader course of conduct by President Trump and his allies to undermine the traditional independence of Department of Justice’s investigations and…

I announce that the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso…

I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.

There is no clearer evidence that Trump and Vance kiss the ring of Vladimir Putin than today's meeting.

What the American people saw was Trump and Vance behaving in ways that are unbefitting their offices.

there is no clearer evidence that Trump and Vance kiss the ring of Vladimir Putin.