Mr. President, this amendment is simply about paying for veterans' benefits. It doesn't stop veterans' benefits. It actually pays for them by moving money from wasteful programs over to Veterans Affairs to pay for their benefits. It does…

Mr. President, if good intentions created good laws, there would be no need for congressional debate. I have no doubt that the authors of the bill on the floor genuinely want to protect children, but the bill they have written promises to…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the following interns in my office be granted floor privileges until August 9, 2024: Krrishh Kamal, Haley Leipzig, Daniel James, William DuVall, and Chad Schumacher. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

Mr. President, a few comments on the support the authors of the bill have come forward with. The discussion is that State attorneys are not empowered when, in actuality, if you read the bill, the State attorneys are empowered. They are…

This is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this.

That does not sound to me like open-mindedness, and I wonder what you would tell a younger researcher...

This is incredibly important and needs congressional oversight on the select agents, but also on the Gain-of-Function.

They believed it did not come from nature.

FBI concluded it came from the lab.

We want you to doctor it up and even be more strong, because we are making a political point here.

This is not scientific debate that they're taking us off the Internet.

The ones that have been vocal about this and talked a lot about have been the DOE, which has more scientists than any other agency in Washington, probably other than NIH. They have concluded that it did come from the lab.