Madam President, I have two 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…

How do you recommend that hardworking families who are struggling to get by absorb these additional costs associated with electric vehicles?

Is that going to help speed up the timeframe to be able to process this?

we can do something about where we are refining the minerals.

we all agree on this committee in a bipartisan way that lithium and cobalt are going to be essential for the clean energy transition.

Mr. President, this is now the sixth time that I have been on this floor asking for unanimous consent so that the U.S. Senate can do its job to ratify, to approve the nominations of flag officers' promotions at the Department of Defense…

you are regulating an industry out of existence here, and we are seeing it is less reliable.

So, I know for a fact that my congressional office has contacted the NPRC multiple times to help veterans obtain a copy of their records to verify eligibility and receive their benefits.

It appears to me that the lack of an investigative discipline and the failure to take logical investigative steps are a result of bias.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the following nominations en bloc: Calendar No. 46 through No. 52, No. 82 through No. 107, No. 110 through No. 113, No. 130 through No. 139, No. 180…

You said you came back to work in 2022, everyone came back in person. Why did that take so long?

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider with respect to the Rikelman nomination be considered made and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING…

My concern is that the bias that has been demonstrated there, whether it has been eradicated or dealt with, could exist in any of these agencies.

You are regulating an industry out of existence here, and we are seeing it is less reliable.

If there was this bias in an agency like the FBI that we saw previously, and they wanted to go after a U.S. citizen, they could use that technique to go after that citizen.

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:43 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 10 a.m…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, June 21; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the…

I do not think that the average American taxpayer is looking for another Federal Government bailout for tires.