the Senate will be a less august chamber without you, sir.

When I did, after all that we knew about what was going on and heard about from afar, when I arrived there and saw still things functioning as well as they were was a testament to what you are talking about, the resourcefulness of the…

When I was there, I noted to President Mnangagwa that the government of Zimbabwe would be well served to have regular contact with the Ambassador before issues come up or as they come up rather than afterwards.

Senator Flake has requested me to focus on.

on this vote, I have a pair with the Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Inhofe. If he were present and voting, he would vote ``yea''. He is absent due to a family emergency. If I were permitted to vote, I would vote ``nay''. I therefore withdraw…

I thank my colleague from New Jersey and my colleague from Delaware for working together on this issue. I rise today once again to speak in defense of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and to speak of the importance of the investigation he is…

With the president tweeting on a regular, daily basis that the special counsel is conflicted, that he is leading so-called 12 angry Democrats and demeaning and ridiculing him in every way to be so sanguine about the chances of him being…

I can use that leverage and I well, but, unfortunately, by January 3rd, somebody else has to take it up.

The president's pardon power is nearly absolute. And so, yes.

I think that's exactly what we need to do. The president needs to know that the Senate will not stand for him firing Mueller.

Just look at what has happened. The attorney general has been fired. And oversight for the investigation has been taken from the deputy attorney general where it belonged.

I want to thank the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Coons, and the Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Booker, for doing this together with us to make sure that we have this bipartisan piece of legislation here on the Senate floor. It is not…