I am going to come down to the Senate floor right now and build on my Senate colleague from Alaska, Senator Murkowski's, remarks that she just made dealing with national security, the challenges we are facing as a country, the…

The Biden administration, tomorrow, is going to say: We don't care about the law. We are going to take that off the table and reverse the EIS and the road that you guys have, tomorrow--for good. Again, who is going to benefit? Who is going…

Thank you, Madam President. Unprecedented territory. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The pending business is the point of order raised by the majority leader. The Senator from Louisiana.

we seem to be in unprecedented territory here. So I have a parliamentary inquiry. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. State your inquiry, please.

has there been a successfully invoked point of order to dispose of an Article of Impeachment prior to opening arguments by the House managers? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair is not aware of any such occurrence.

I retired from the Marine Corps last month after 30 years.

Some of these law firms are charging 60 and 70 percent contingency fees. It is disgusting.

I have a reputation on this Committee of going way over my time, and I think it ticks off a lot of my Senate colleagues.

Again, I mean, we are very happy about Metlakatla, but that one does not really count as a statewide one.

Can I get your commitment to work with us on that?

As a matter of fact, not to be too morbid here, but that is where I intend to be buried, and I want my kids to be able to go see me.

My State has more vets per capita than any State in the country, so these are really important issues to my constituents.

It should not be. We have talked to you guys before, the military folks.

So the majority of the State, again, a State with more veterans per capita than any other State, we actually do not have a veteran cemetery.

It is not easy to get there, as you know, and it was a real honor that you came out for that opening ceremony.

I understand you want to help maintain the ones you have. That makes total sense.

I want to talk about some of the important issues that we are debating here on the Senate floor. Actually, they are quite important, and we are having a good debate. I want to just talk about some of the votes that we have taken in the…

these are areas that I think can unify us: industrial base, workers, Taiwan, Israel. Like any bill, there are things in here I don't like: too much direct support to Ukraine, direct budget support. I think the European…

We are in the midst of a very heartbreaking spike in mental health challenges among our military members.

I think it's a wonderful program, innovative, and maybe it's too early to tell the impact.

I wanted to work with you and your team on how the VA formula can be reevaluated to better reflect some of the realities on the ground.

Are we seeing any kind of positive signs on veteran mental health or suicide issues nationally, or are the trends still trending in a direction that is continuing to be alarming?

Look, when the Vet Centers are there, I agree with Mr. Fisher, the response, you know, it's been great.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribute to Maria Downey

it is Thursday afternoon, and, as you know from presiding at this time frequently, it is my favorite time of the week because I get to come down to the Senate floor and talk about our Alaskan of the Week. This is somebody who is doing…