It is kind of an old statute and it is not modern.

It is disappointing because Senator Peters has signed now several letters, and one of them is probably six months old.

Madam President, what we have here is a pork fest of epic proportions. You can't imagine how much pork barrel spending is going on in this bill, but you should know about it. There are 6,000 earmarks in this bill. What is an earmark? An…

Mr. President, porkbarrel spending elicits images of politicos, fists full of cash to be passed out to the special interests. Porkbarrel spending sounds bad and smells worse. Porkbarrel spending is the original sin of Congress that Big…

Mr. President, I yield back my time, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to discharge? Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call…

Mr. President, what we have here is a clear case of quid pro quo. If Turkiye releases its hold on Sweden's membership in NATO, then Turkiye gets America's F-16s. You may remember the last time we had a famous case of quid pro quo here…

The difference between Russia and Turkiye is no one is offering to sell F-16s to Russia. I am not for selling F-16s to Russia; neither am I for selling F-16s to Turkiye. This is a clear case of quid pro quo. All of the folks who are now…

Mr. President, I move to discharge S.J. Res. 60 from the Foreign Relations Committee. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to discharge from the Committee on Foreign…

Mr. President, here we go again. Senators of both parties will once again kick the can down the road. Our national debt is over $34 trillion and growing at an alarming rate. The majority of the Senate meets today to vote once again for…

All right. A lot of votes up here--win or lose--don't change things. I do predict that this vote is transforming things. People have asked whether or not there is dissension on the Republican side. I think there is a great deal of…

Madam President, open the champagne, pop the cork, the Senate Democrat leader and the Republican leader are on their way to Kyiv. They have got $60 billion they are bringing. I don't know if it will be cash in pallets, but they are taking…

This filibuster now enters its fifth day. For many people across America, they may not understand the Byzantine rules of the Senate, but they allow for sufficient debate on important questions. Often the rules of the Senate are…