We are talking about making it clear that the United States is standing up for global leadership against this type of behavior.

The Maryland Legislature passed a pretty aggressive plan to deal with carbon emissions, reducing greenhouse emissions by 40 percent by the year 2030 and to reach 100 percent clean electricity by 2040.

We have taken steps, and I must tell you, initiated by the Legislative branch of government, on dealing with trafficking in persons.

Yesterday, I introduced the International Financial Institutions Mobilization Act, which uses the United States' votes and leverage at international financial institutions to build resiliency and growth.

I would just urge you to understand the urgency of this moment, what China is doing.

We need to take a much more aggressive stand with institutional infrastructure to deal with China's coercive policies.

I rise to express my support for the substitute amendment to the House message accompanying H.R. 4346, which is the vehicle for the so-called CHIPS Act. Semiconductors are crucial to nearly every sector of our economy. They are in our cars…

If I am governing and taking care of the people in my country and I am going to have social unrest because people cannot afford the gas to get to their job or the food prices cannot be afforded, at the end of the day to achieve the goal of…

We do need Federal policies. They are critically important. We need our States to innovate, as we have seen in Louisiana and other States.

If we would have waited for these negotiations to take place, we never would have passed the sanction regime against Iran.

We should look at the NEPA process and use that to establish the real cost associated with transportation infrastructure, including its impact on climate.

Diversity at the State Department is critically important, as both of you have said.

We need all the talent of all of Americans in our State Department.

We have bipartisan support. We think we have enough support to pass this bill. We have already talk to our colleagues in the house, and I think they are ready to take it up as soon as we pass it in the Senate. So, we do hope that this bill…

We have lost over a decade of progress in diversity at the State Department.

I further ask that the preamble be agreed to and that the motions 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 preamble was…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 412, S. Res. 589. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution (S…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 3 p.m., Monday, July 25, and that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…

I have five requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to Rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 411, S. Res. 568. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The bill clerk read as follows: A resolution (S. Res…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations en bloc: Calendar Nos. 1045, 1046, 1047, 1049, 1057, 1058, and all nominations on the Secretary's desk in the Foreign Service; that…

I further ask that the committee-reported substitute amendment to the resolution be agreed to; the resolution, as amended, be agreed to; the committee-reported substitute amendment to the preamble be agreed to; the preamble, as amended, be…

for the past 6 months, I have been pleased to work with a bipartisan working group of about a dozen Senators for potential reforms of the Electoral Count Act and some related matters. I particularly want to thank our leaders of that…

I ask unanimous consent that Senators Cortez Masto, Cardin, and Hickenlooper be authorized to sign duly enrolled bills or joint resolutions from July 21, 2022, until July 25. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 4:21 p.m., adjourned until Monday, July 25, 2022, at 3 p.m. ____________________