I come to the floor this evening because we have some serious business ahead of us soon. For Laken Riley, Ruby Garcia, and the countless Americans who have died from fentanyl, the Senate must hold a full impeachment trial for Secretary…

What kind of confidence does that give you that the entirety of it, with Social Security at the centerpiece, is going to be there for future generations?

We would like your office to get back to kind of categorize to the best of your ability to do it, how much fraud would be a part of Social Security.

We need to pass the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate these provisions.

Under this plan, a typical senior would save about $800 a year on taxes, and this would create real relief for seniors in a time of rising costs and out of control inflation.

I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

I ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

We can't take the hit here when we are running now $2 trillion deficits, and Social Security is the biggest program we got out there.

As Governor of Nebraska, I recognized that all Social Security benefits should be completely tax free, and that is why I worked hard to pass a historic law that would phaseout the State income tax on Social Security benefits over a period…

Under this plan, a typical senior would save about $800 a year on taxes, and this would create real relief for seniors in a time of rising costs and out of control inflation.

We would like your office to get back to kind of categorize to the best of your ability to do it, how much fraud would be a part of Social Security.

I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to complete my remarks, which I have done, followed by Senator Padilla, for up to 5 minutes prior to the scheduled rollcall vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

As Governor of Nebraska, I recognized that all Social Security benefits should be completely tax free, and that is why I worked hard to pass a historic law that would phaseout the State income tax on Social Security benefits over a period…

Social Security is a vital program for all Americans. We need to be good stewards of its services and benefits.

The status of Social Security is critical for millions of Americans.

The status of Social Security is critical for millions of Americans.

I come to the floor this evening to talk about our national debt, and I will be introducing a resolution here in a moment. Our national debt, to put it in perspective, had never been much before the year 2000. Cumulatively, it was $5…

Government, you know, where it has gone to. It has got to get back down into where people for basic questions in any government agency don't have to hang on to the phone more than a few minutes at the most.

We have never in the history of the country raised more than roughly 18 percent of our GDP in Federal revenues.

We cannot run the biggest business in the world that way.

You are really forced to do that as a Mayor, because if you are letting stuff like that go, people will run you down at a ballgame or some other place.

We need to pass the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate these provisions.

I ran a business for 37 years, and if we ever had any kind of irregularities that would have been in the category of what you hear here, somebody gets fired.

Sadly, we lack the political will to do anything about it.