My responsibility is to ensure the President has a powerful, lethal, and ready military force in the Indo-Asia-Pacific in the event the other instruments of national power, specifically diplomatic and economic, fail.

where does the K through 8 public school system fit into this?

I beg you, if you come for government funding, you must remove as many vestiges of political agenda as you can.

This is not education. This is agenda.

I am very worried that, you know, this PIAAC measure says the U.S. ranks 21st out of 23 in numeracy.

Now, I am not--I am making no comparisons that you can compare to Norway, but, look, no comparison.

should we reward those that don't--I mean, we send billions of Federal dollars to public schools that can't teach someone to add and subtract.

the average U.S. consumer gets 189 channels now.

the question--and the question, really, should be raised in every part of the government, is, you know, is what this organization that we fund, any organization that we fund, I don't care whether it is the Department of Defense, whether it…

this Secretary of Education has taken a lot of heat for actually implying that our public school systems don't really do too good a job and that maybe they need a little reform.

Everything that has been done up to this point has not worked in deterring Kim Jong-un, so all of the military capabilities that we have, all of our alliances, and all of that, have not deterred Kim Jong-un's desires to achieve a nuclear…

If we do not maintain credible combat power to confront Kim Jong-un's testing and his development goals, then we are going to be in a position to be blackmailed by KJU.

I beg you, please, remove the agenda from education.

I rise today, humbled to offer my first official speech as the junior U.S. Senator from the great State of California. I rise with a deep sense of reverence for this institution, for its history, and for its unique role as the defender of…

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the suggestion that reciting the words of the great Coretta Scott King would invoke rule XIX and force Senator Warren to sit down and be silent is outrageous.

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I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding to me. The gentleman just brought up an interesting point. It is true that in the Netherlands, when they reviewed their experience, they found that just legalizing…

I yield my hour of postcloture debate time under rule XXII to Senator Cardin. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right. The Senator from Nevada.

--who will be stripped of their right to have health care, my vote is no. The clerk will continue to call the roll.

On behalf of the 5 million Californians-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Debate is not allowed during a vote. The Senate will be in order. The Senator may vote.

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