as I try to do every year, if time permits--this will be my seventh year in the U.S. Senate; sometimes our work here finishes in a different fashion, but if possible, I try to come on the last day of the legislative year and give a speech…

I wish to pay tribute to a member of my staff, Kris Tande, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of this year. This is not the first time he has retired from public service as retired Navy Capt Ludvig K. Kris Tande spent a career as a…

Senator Marco Rubio, coming around today, saying he's a yes.

I think this is smart political strategy by Marco Rubio. He's been telegraphing this somewhat in recent days where he tweeted his annoyance with the fact that during the amendment process they voted down his amendment along with Senator…

It's an ominous continuing down that path of allowing this repression, this surveillance...

This ought to be on its own. Would you have a fifth dialogue at the highest levels on human rights...

Chinese leaders are engaged in the long game and it is something that policymakers in the United States, and with our like-minded allies, must take seriously.

I hope my colleagues if they ever read this record, if it's ever reported what we are about to talk about here, what we have talked about today, realize that big companies, corporations, business interests, their obligation is to their…

But to the extent that the same authoritarian impulses animate the Chinese government's efforts abroad, it directly threatens our most deeply held values and our national interests.

Beijing strategy clearly targets Latin American elites, prominent regional leaders from multiple fields, including politicians, academics, journalists, former diplomats, current government officials, students, among others are subtly--that…

China's Great Firewall, rights violations in ethnic minority regions, harassment of rights defenders and lawyers, suppression of free speech, onerous restrictions on civil society, these are the shameful markings of an authoritarian…

There needs to be a sanction. There needs to be a, certainly, lifting of voices.