U.S. Senate

‘Mountains and Clouds’ is not a Calder sculpture without the clouds.

Is there any chance that before I leave the Senate, or at least before I die, we can get the clouds back up there?

We really had to go back to the drawing board to try to figure out what Calder designed.

That statue is like if the ‘Mona Lisa’ was ripped in half, and you kept it up in the Louvre. That wouldn’t be the ‘Mona Lisa’ anymore.

I felt like I was going to retire from Congress, and this project would not be done. I’ve spent 12 years working on this, so it’s pretty thrilling.

I will continue working in good faith to put an end [to] this legal and political albatross and prevent any potential misallocation of taxpayer dollars.

Look, if I wanted a new billion-dollar thing, I would not be within my rights to demand it on a 60-day funding patch.

So, I hope we’ll take advantage of this opportunity to delay it.

You know, any fiscal conservative, any conservative Republican knows that the best government is divided government when it comes to limited government.

No doubt. No doubt. The president has particular, you know, sway over Republican voters, that subset of a subset that controls primaries.

Instead, through his disastrous tariffs, failed war in Iran, and brutal ‘Big, Beautiful’ budget bill, Delawareans are paying thousands of dollars more because of this administration.

We need to find a way to build more high voltage transmission lines in the next decade—our ability to grow our economy depends on it.

I propose we extend these prohibitions to additional Chinese models and enact a government-wide ban on contractor use.

Our fighting force is stronger when any American – regardless of their gender – can meet the toughest military standards in the world.

Quantum technologies are a critical aspect of this competition, and it’s important that we build them here at home.

I want to turn briefly […], and this is not a brief topic, but it's the National Parks.

I think that the fundamental reality is that many things, while well-intended, become subject to the unintended consequences of their own action.

Our Democracy relies on people being able to show up to the ballot box and their vote to be secret and counted. And, if someone tries to interfere with that right, they need to be held accountable – no matter who they are.

We laud your decision earlier this year to rescind an interim final rule after it faced significant backlash from the veterans’ community.

I urge Senators to oppose this nomination.

That's why Congress must pass the WARRIOR Act—to protect the fact that every qualified servicemember should be judged by merit, not by chauvinistic and outdated perceptions of gender roles.

Pete Hegseth has made no secret of his contempt for women and transgender servicemembers.

Senator Collins asked the OMB to withdraw parts of the rule that would unduly burden scientific and biomedical research and small communities.

Abandoning children to meet deportation targets is immoral. This must stop. These children deserve legal representation.