My Republican colleagues complain that I, and my Democratic colleagues, aren't concerned about our nation's fiscal situation...

Indeed, CBO found that actual and projected federal health spending over the 2010 to 2033 period was $6.3 trillion, $6.3 trillion lower than predicted, which I attribute to improving quality, and moving to value-based care.

Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you can see has been fairly constant over all of those years.

Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than it was projected to be in 2012?

Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, very wealthy individuals.

And healthcare spending has gone up even more. Does that also relate to an aging population?

Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I kind of doubt it.

Your mention of can we agree to a debt to GDP level provokes me to remember my work with Chairman Enzi to find a safe debt to GDP level, a glide slope to get there, and guardrails to assure that we're not cheating on it, and I think that…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the attached article entitled ``Lessons from Ukraine'' by Alan W. Dowd in the American Legion Magazine be printed in the Congressional Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered…

Madam President, in a few minutes, the Senate is going to vote on the confirmation of Judge Nancy Maldonado to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which the Acting President pro tempore and I know very well. Since…

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent.

Trumps advisers have created a 900-page blueprint they're calling Project 2025, detailing everything else they plan to do in a second term.

Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows…

Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 420, S. 4554. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 420, S. 4554, a bill to…

Madam President, American democracy stands today at a perilous crossroads. One week ago, the six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court undermined the most basic premise in our constitutional order, that no one--no one--is above the…

Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 621. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination…

Finally, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 9; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date…

I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: Cloture Motion…