I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.

We pulled every lever, poked every bear. It was just a series of Hail Marys. You know, when Senator Durbin, we`re very grateful that he took this cause and brought it to the top.

--or the police--I hope all of my colleagues would oppose this amendment. Vote on Amendment No. 3568 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). Without objection, it is so ordered. Gun Control

imagine it is 3 in the morning, in a desert, on our border, and the Border Patrol is out there and finds a family--a mother and a father and two small children. What do they do when they are 50 miles away from a port of entry? They…

we all agree on one basic thing: No one who is dangerous to the United States should be allowed to come to this country. And those who are here and not citizens who are guilty of a serious crime should be removed from this country. That is…

the Senator from Mississippi has stated her case explicitly: If a prosecutor fails to prosecute a case, the town or community that he represents as prosecutor--the town or community--will be denied Federal funds. Think about this. Under…

the Grassley amendment would exclude from a path to citizenship any undocumented immigrant who has been convicted of any crime or who has been merely charged with a crime. This is a broad exclusion, applies to any criminal conviction no…

at my request this amendment incorporates language reflecting Democratic priorities funded by the budget resolution, including smart and effective border security measures like nonintrusive inspection systems, hiring additional Customs…

this past Saturday, at 9 p.m., Chicago Police Officer Ella French was shot and killed during a traffic stop on the Chicago South Side. Her death is devastating. Officer French was 29 years old. She had served as a member of the Chicago…

I ask unanimous consent that following the Klobuchar amendment, the following amendments be in order and that the amendments be reported by number, with no amendments in order prior to a vote in relation to the amendment: Capito, No. 3284…

this has been a historic day in the U.S. Senate. We started by passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill that made history, and now the Senator from Missouri is finally coming around to supporting the COPS Hiring Program that was created by…

I attended the same classified briefing as the Republican Senate leader, and I listened carefully as the administration presented the realities of Afghanistan, and I was drawn to a historical analogy that was best captured in a short verse…

There`s a lot of information we`d like to gather from Mr. Clark, will help bring some clarity to the situation.

Look at the progression of events, first, the onslaught of lawsuits going through the judiciary with many of the judges that he appointed, then he went to the Department of Justice, he decided he would manipulate the Attorney General into…

Well sure, the smacks of it from my point of view. Listen, sometimes, dictators just take over the whole government and don't even mess around with the people with the titles.

Oh, let me tell you something, the pressure was as tough as it gets in this town of Washington. And then here's the President of the United States, basically saying, here's what I want you to do. And if you can't do it, I've got somebody…

Nancy Pelosi has a bipartisan committee at work. This is a bipartisan effort.

Well, it`s its own version. We shouldn`t dismiss this as just a bad day for Donald Trump. It was a conscious planned strategy that did not work, thank goodness.

since the beginning of our history, U.S. Marshals have protected our Federal judicial process and defended the integrity of our Constitution. Today, the Marshals Service oversees thousands of deputy marshals and investigators across…

first, let me say that this issue about this corporation--I believe the Senator said it was known as Avantor-- it was a corporation which was once under the control of Vanita Gupta's father. She had no--no--active role whatsoever in the…

I am disappointed. At this point, this is an issue involving Vanita Gupta, who was approved by the Senate and now is serving in the Department of Justice and has been for months. What this has to do with the person to lead the U.S…

I have been listening to criticism from the other side of the aisle about our plan to improve American families' economic security and the long-term strength in our economy. And I have to wonder, why do Republicans never worry about…

the random violence on the streets of Chicago results in Monday morning reports that break your heart: 100 people shot on the Fourth of July weekend; the following weekend, 50; the weekend after that, 70. It never stops. These mass…

I believe I made it clear that her father was the chairman of the board of the company and she was a stockholder, not in the management of the company. So whatever choices they made to sell whatever chemicals anywhere in the world was not…