Michael Bennet: “I know that the hour is--not late. I guess it is early, but the staff have been on the floor all night, and the pages…”

“I know that the hour is--not late. I guess it is early, but the staff have been on the floor all night, and the pages are exhausted. They have been working. I wanted just to say--and I know the Presiding Officer doesn't deserve to have to spend 5 minutes listening to me. I just want to say a word, as we get out of here, about where we are. I want to thank the Senator from Vermont for his moral leadership and for his clarity in this difficult time. Not that long ago, we had a conversation with the President of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy. It was while we were still in the midst of COVID, and we were meeting on Zoom. He said to the U.S. Senate that the Ukrainian people were fighting so they could live their lives the way we live our lives--the way we live our lives in the United States. More recently, in our last meeting with him, which was in person, he came here and met us in the Old Senate--or in, I guess, the Mansfield Room. He said to us that they were going to continue to fight; that if we didn't support them, they would lose but that they would never stop fighting because the Ukrainian people know what freedom is about, and they wouldn't stop. He thought that they could succeed if we continued to support them. He was very clear about that. It wasn't clear to me that we were going to be able to fulfill our commitment. There have been moments--I have been here now 14 years or so. There have been moments when I have really wondered whether the U.S.…”