What I'm seeing is the possibility that he could invoke unknown rules and regulations that would permit him to say no to a subpoena, no to an indictment, no to resources, no to an additional area of investigation that is directly related…

Too many loopholes and lawyerly gaps. For example, on the recusal issue. He's written a memo that basically would put the president above the law against any obstruction charges.

Well, I think one view is that he gave a signal in that memo that he wrote that the president cannot be charged or perhaps even accountable for crimes like obstruction of justice because of the view that the president has control over the…

It is very serious because it relates to a key figure in Vladimir Putin's orbit and a potential Russian agent. But equally significant is the clear sign that this investigation is far from done.

I'm concerned because my own view is that a president can be indicted. There's nothing in the Constitution to prevent it, and it may be necessary to prevent the statute of limitations from running on a very serious charge like obstruction…

the Senator from Illinois is absolutely right. The votes are there to pass these six bills. The majority leader, in effect, is acting as a buffer for the President. He is not serving this body because he knows that his own Members would…

That's the only acceptable option in my book.

I wish to close by thanking my colleagues, Senator Duckworth and Senator Baldwin, and say that I would like to end this session on a positive note. I am going to be proud to yield to one of my very good friends and one of our most…

in closing, I am grateful to my colleague from Wisconsin and my colleagues across the aisle. This measure was bipartisan. It was passed unanimously in the House of Representatives. It should be unanimous here. The money is not a problem…

I greatly respect my colleague from Utah, and I thank our friend from Georgia for his positive remarks on this topic, but more than words are necessary; we need action. We need dollars and cents to brave Americans who undertook to serve…

I thank my colleague and friend Senator Isakson, as well as the ranking member, Senator Tester, for their leadership on the Veterans' Affairs Committee in this past session. I have been proud and honored to work with them, and I look…

sometime in the next 2 weeks, we will leave this body and this session, and many of us will return in January for the next one. We will leave many challenges unmet and many problems unsolved, partly because of the partisanship that has…

I ask unanimous consent that this letter from 44 former U.S. Senators be printed in the Congressional Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: December 10, 2018. Dear Senate…

For Donald Trump, testimony would be necessary to exonerate himself, but as you know, having covered him and as the American people know having watched him, Donald Trump's connection to facts and evidence is very tenuous.

What I see is that the sprawling, sweeping, Russian disinformation campaign is continuing.

There has been absolutely a failure on the part of my Republican colleagues to stand up, to speak out, and to push back against Donald Trump.

Unfortunately, I think my Republican colleagues need to find the Senate lost and found for their consciences, because history will judge them very harshly if they fail at this critical moment when we know the Russians are continuing this…

I want to begin by thanking a number of my colleagues who have contributed so much to bringing us to this point on S.J. Res. 54. I have been very pleased and honored to work with them in cosponsoring these measures in the past--most…

Admiral Moran, for the Navy's fiscal year 2020 budget submission, will there be more emphasis on modernizing Navy C-130T propellers or should we expect to see another unfunded requirement like we did this past year for fiscal year 2019?

in my view, it is one of the most essential because our submarine fleet, our undersea warfare capability, is in my view one of the linchpins of our national defense

The investigation determined the primary casual factor of the mishap was an unnoticed fatigue crack on a propeller blade.

I would argue that there's a continuing conspiracy that in effect surmounts this statute of limitations.

Well, hope is not a strategy.

I believe very strongly that the president, himself, can be indicted. There's no constitutional bar to it.

It sends a couple messages. First of all, the judge indicated that the crime justified this three years, a significant sentence, because it was serious and sophisticated. Second, there were statements in court and there's other evidence…