Rand Paul: “This is something that should not happen in a free country, and it is contrary to the spirit and the law of the First…”

The bill before us grants the Executive Branch the power to raise nearly $500 billion dollars in revenue. I hope I am not the only Republican left in Congress who is horrified by a bill that proposes to raise taxes by half a trillion…

That needs to be debated by the country. Is the knowledge of creating viruses that could kill the world worth the risks? And I don't think it is.

We will hand carry this over to the attorney general. We will hand carry this to the district court here in (the District of) Columbia.

The Constitution says that the declaration of war, the initiation of war, is a vote of Congress.