I come to the floor today, first, to talk about the Build Back Better Budget. This is an opportunity for this country to get it right. For far too long, millionaires and billionaires, corporations in this country have accrued more and more…

The cost of continuing it unmodified is to send a signal of endorsement to this behavior.

Is not there a risk at some point that if there is no consequence for a country like Egypt to continuing this crackdown on political dissent and speech that it compromises our ability to lead the world when it comes to the advancement of…

The question I am simply asking is for us to assess the cost of altering our relationship versus the cost of continuing it unmodified.

I am interested in continuing this dialogue.

There is no doubt China has an intent to grow their security partnerships in the region.

My opening comments were designed to sort of provoke this conversation about whether our assumptions about the reasons for our aid are matched to current realities.

I hope our partners noticed that silence.

This town loves military escalation. Makes a lot of people rich here. De-escalation is not as lucrative.

We need to engage China from a position of strength.

The JCPOA did not nor was intended to solve all of our outstanding issues with Iran, but as a mechanism to discuss and promote the ways that you can affect Iranian behavior other than through the sale of arms to their competitors.

We still are a moral pacesetter around the world.

I think you can see how it is a little difficult for the American public to figure out where these authorizations end when it is construed so broadly.

Even if there is no threat of force being used against United States, if there is a threat of force against a partner force...

It looks like we can get a vote later this week. We're going to process a bunch of amendments, many of which will be offered by Republicans to try to make the bill better or different.

I think there are many Republicans who do not want to full and accurate accounting because they know, in the end, the story will come right back to them.

That Deep State narrative is still very much alive amongst Republicans in Congress, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, it is par for the course, Senator Johnson has been treading in these conspiracy theories for years now.

I rarely come to the floor to directly respond to speeches given by my colleagues. I normally like to use the Chamber to make my own arguments on their merits rather than to make arguments against specific colleagues. But yesterday I…

Don’t come to the Senate floor and make things up. Don’t destroy people’s reputations and careers with wild, unsubstantiated allegations about political motivations.

rightfully, this body is consumed with pending votes on infrastructure, but I want to draw my colleagues' attention to another matter of both importance and urgency. One of Vladimir Putin's favorite tactics during the Chechen rebellion was…

I strongly supported the expansion of the DFC through the BUILD Act as it is crucial to U.S. commercial policy globally and particularly in African markets.

I urge that the changes put forth in the amendment from Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) to the EAGLE Act and those from Senator Chris Murphy to the Innovation and Competition Act that would fix the budget scoring issue around equity investing…

Trump thrives in a world where government can’t solve people’s problems.

If it does blow up, and I don’t think it will, It’s not a done deal for the President’s agenda. Why? Because we have this second process called reconciliation in which we can pass all of this plus the human infrastructure spending that we…