Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 20 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I come to the floor, and I have been trying to get time to do this, because I stand here in amazement that after the Republicans took over on January 6--after they won big in November and they took over the Senate on January…

With terrorists all around us, Republicans are playing politics with the critical funding for the Department of Homeland Security and threatening a shutdown. It took them exactly a month in power to do that because they didn't like the…

Mr. President, I rise to speak about the impending exhaustion of the disability trust fund administered by the Social Security Administration. The Social Security system contains two important programs. One is the Old-Age and Survivors…

When a majority of States object to a rule, I think you have done something wrong.

It is something many of us here oppose and are going to continue to try to dismantle.

The DOE announced this week that after 10 years of work, it was canceling the FutureGen, the CCS Project, 'in order to best protect taxpayer interests.'

I think General Raheel understands that he has a big piece to play in this.

We all know what a goal is. It is a free, stable, democratic Afghanistan.

We are proud of your great leadership.

I still believe that the Taliban cannot overtake the government.

Aviation is one of the areas of most critical I would argue.

Our support, however, cannot and should not be indefinite or unconditional.

General Campbell, you talked about the efforts of President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah to reach out to the Taliban and to try and begin some sort of negotiations.

Every witness before this committee... believes that we cannot have a calendar-based withdrawal from Afghanistan.

General Campbell, there are reports that Afghan fighters, specifically Hazara, are supporting Hezbollah and Quds force efforts in Syria.

I would add logistics to that list.

General Campbell, please describe the sources and rough order of magnitude of amounts of funding for the Afghan Taliban including your assessment of what percentage of their overall funding each source provides.