Brian Schatz

As I hear the senior Senator from Iowa, it is like I am living in another world. I am not alleging that Mr. Patel has an enemies list. He is the one that has said that. I am not alleging that he would use law enforcement against Donald…

The mass firings underscored the multiple ways in which the Trump administration's incompetence and arson is about to hit Americans.

The multiple ways in which the Trump administration's incompetence and arson is about to hit Americans.

There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania. Thousands of American diplomats leaving their posts abruptly. We just look so weak and a bit nuts. Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a…

There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania. Thousands of American diplomats leaving their posts abruptly. We just look so weak and a bit nuts. Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a…

I'm not going to let some pundit dictate whether or not I exercise my obligations as a member of the Article One branch.

He wants to be the king’s hand.

I was like, now we are cooking. He was like, I want another EO to just say it was Biden's fault. That is like when they admitted that what they are doing is when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. They understand that…

It is not changing laws regarding disaster preparedness or infrastructure; it is changing laws on voter ID.

Yes, I think you are exactly right that we are--look, every day I try to sort out, of the 20 outrages, how many can I even focus on? And to your point, the Gaza thing was deeply offensive, right? Deeply offensive. But also probably not…

They recommend that he pardon, essentially, the people who improperly entered the building. Now, I would have opposed that. But then he just said: You know what? Pardon them all.

Or pardon everyone in the January 6 event. You know this, and you have talked about this on the floor.

Well, and just to be clear, they don't even have their e- mail accounts working, so think about that. First of all, it is a little weird to send people home and say, We are still operational, and then they can't even get their dot-aid…

That seems like normal attrition in a 9-month period, so I think what we just did, is of the people who were planning on retiring anyway, we just gave them like a 6-month payout. So we get nothing because they get paid through…

And we have the Fair Housing Law, we have equal employment law, like you are not allowed to discriminate in housing. And so just to understand, they are not trying to just like cancel these programs related to DEI; they are trying to…

Yeah, yeah. This is the crazy thing. By the way, different, I am an Ashkenazi Jew, right, I do actually have--there is a thing called--I think it is called Tay-Sachs or something that I have a proclivity to having it, so we have to have a…

Yeah. So the problem is though, you have to do research on females in order to understand what is happening with females.

They would get--I was about to swear. It is the Senate floor. I will not. But they would get canned. They would get immediately sacked.

Can I say one thing about--I did not know that this whole Senate is powered on Celsius. I never had Celsius before. I was walking around offering people coffee, and everyone had a Celsius.

I just want to say how much I have come to admire, in a short period of time, the junior Senator from New Jersey. That was a--that was a real speech, you know. We are, obviously, spending 30 hours on the floor to oppose Russ Vought's…

I will now put a blanket hold on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is restored.

There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania.

Yeah. Look, I think our job over the next couple of days--and the leader has been very strong on this--is to point out that, look, I have never seen a floor fight over the OMB Director. And there is a reason for that. It is because that is…

We have all had that moment where you are like: OK. It is closing day. And the VA home loan office was not available for you to execute on your loan.

It is really frightening. And I think about last week before the Federal funding freeze was deemed unlawful and suspended. People couldn't get their VA home loans.