U.S. Senate

I know the Senator from Alaska knows about balance. She has passed a lot of legislation out of this Committee. And I think today, unfortunately, we are not finding that balance.

I just want to make it clear that in the Chaco [Canyon] case, there was no land transfer. All of that land remained in public hands. There was a mineral withdrawal that was designed to protect thousands of individual archeological and…

Sometimes national park boundaries need to change, and it is this Committee’s job to decide when that is a good idea. But that work cannot be one-sided—only advancing bills that remove protections, and not those that add them.

Unfortunately, this is yet another markup in this Committee where we are not conserving a single additional acre of public land for the American people.

The American people deserve to have a government that works for them—not one that is willing to push energy prices even higher and put the country’s energy security at grave risk.

Once an administration begins punishing Americans for how they vote, the threat extends far beyond these projects: no state, community, business, or worker can trust that the federal government will apply the law fairly.

It is an attack on the rule of law and the basic democratic principle that the federal government serves the entire country—not merely those who support the President.

The good news is that we've reestablished a bipartisan principle that we should still be present in the world, that we should still alleviate suffering, that we should still provide economic assistance, that we should still respond to…

While I’m glad the administration is finally following the law and taking the necessary steps to provide this funding, it must also release the billions of dollars in global health funding that it continues to withhold, wasting resources…

Gavi is one of the most effective health partnerships in the world. This funding will help save lives around the world and protect Americans here at home by making vaccines available to those who need it and stopping the spread of…

Our bill will provide federal workers with 12 weeks of paid leave, giving them the time they need to take care of their own health and their loved ones.

Right now, our laws are forcing federal workers to make the impossible choice between caring for their families and keeping their jobs.

America wins the AI race when we offer models that provide optionality, from the state-of-the-art frontier for high-assurance, mission-critical applications in defense, critical infrastructure, and advanced scientific research, to cheaper…

I encourage you to pursue a proactive strategy to address these issues, with a coordinated, multi-pronged approach.

American companies, particularly those that do business with the U.S. government, should never jeopardize our security for higher profits.

To stay ahead in the AI race, the U.S. must fully capture AI’s economic and geopolitical returns, while continuing to create the most advanced frontier models.

I write to you concerned about American companies increasingly relying on Chinese AI models.

I remain committed to working toward a final version of the bill that balances the importance of our national security with the domestic needs of the American people.

I could not in good conscience vote to advance a bill that paves the way for an up to 40% increase in year-over-year Department of Defense spending, especially as this administration wages an illegal war in Iran with no plan or end in…

It has become standard practice for Trump Administration officials appearing before Congress not to provide any information about what is going on at their agencies-agencies Congress is charged with overseeing.

Anyone with the will to serve their country and the ability to do the job shouldn’t be shut out of combat units due to their gender.

Our military should judge every service member by their ability, not their gender.

Pete Hegseth has denigrated the role of women in the military in ways that are completely detached from the reality of the meaningful contributions of women servicemembers.

If we want to ensure our military remains the greatest in the world, it is absolutely critical that we pass the WARRIOR Act so that every service member is evaluated based on the demands of the job, not on their gender.