But what Trump says, whether or not he ends up implementing it, sets the agenda for his party. So what is the Speaker talking about and what are many of our colleagues talking about with respect to aid to California? Yes, they are very…

It is like if you read about all the people who were going to quit anyway, but quit and got a payout and the people who are at home locked out of their e-mail but still getting paid, it is almost like there is a different agenda. And…

Listen, if not for lawyers who brought lawsuits, if not for judges who issued injunctions, we would be in a different kind of crisis today. So we are talking about public outrage at an executive action--that was midwived, in part, by the…

And, listen, you had Trump's first term as evidence, right? Obviously, President Trump says a lot of things that he has no intent of doing. News flash: We aren't going to invade and occupy Gaza. But he says a lot of things

Yes. And, to your point, when profit is the only motive, somebody loses out as in your example about, you know, a health clinic in a rural area. It is true also of education, right? I mean, it is pretty costly. It is not monetizable to…

It often doesn't go well. But here is the difference, though, getting back to the nominee, right? Russ Vought is a serious person with the ability to execute on plans.

If there is any internet. So there are places, when it comes to government and government services, for which there is a proper role for the private sector. We have long had public-private partnerships. Inside the Department of Defense, I…

When we open up the Senate every single morning, we don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires.

You can't say female; you can't say gender. I have the list here. It is absolutely patently absurd, right? Do you remember, OK, so that is an element of DEI, but there is another element of DEI. So when that tragic plane crash happened…

I would say 98, 99 percent of Americans are a no on that. In his first term, he said a lot of things that he never even tried to do. He said a lot of reckless things that he never actually followed up on. And during the campaign, he said…

Just for the record, Senator Schatz, it is Diet Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew is disgusting. Diet Mountain Dew is acceptable.

Trump cannot unilaterally close a federal agency.

And so his plan, which is to destroy elements of the Federal Government and State governments and the nonprofit sector that help regular people; his plan to try to intimidate and harass Federal workers; his plan to try to make folks who…

I think it is two or three times the amount of caffeine that a Red Bull has. There is a reason why the conversion is happening--not that I have an intimate understanding of which beverages have which amounts of caffeine. But I am motivated…

We are wide awake to the fraud that’s being perpetuated on this country inside this building and we’re not going to stand for it.

When we open up the Senate every single morning, we don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires.

Musk’s takeover of the federal workforce and the federal payment system was a constitutional crisis.

I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee that’s going to participate in this fraud.

We don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires.

We don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires. We don’t pledge allegiance to Elon Musk.

a lot of Americans turned on the TV today hoping that the President of the United States was going to make a nonpolitical, nonpartisan statement grieving the loss of those who died in the awful plane crash last night. Instead, he almost…

the murder rate in the United States today--the global murder rate--is infinitesimal. It is a fraction of what it was 200 years ago, 400 years ago, 600 years ago--a fraction of what it likely was in the Bronze Age or in the days when…

This is what a king does. This is not how a democracy works. One man does not decide how taxpayers' money is spent.

I come to the floor to join many of my colleagues in expressing grave alarm over the choice of Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense. It is not hyperbole to say that we have never seen a candidate--at least in modern times--to lead…

I am a healthcare provider, and I have been one for 30 years. I rise today in support of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to protect the lives of our country's most innocent. This is not about abortion. As a physician, it…