these laws undermine our democracy and its promise.

Voting laws and practices that impose unnecessary hurdles on voters, especially voters of color, in order to exercise their fundamental rights are also wrong.

Democracy is a promise. Democracy is also a choice.

I urge this Committee and the full Senate, the world's greatest deliberative body, to not just speak out loudly against the misinformation and lies, but to stop it in its tracks through legislation and any means that you can.

I think that ought to be part of the strategy.

We've got to get over our aversion to the idea of industrial policy.

Our policy toward China is all over the place.

as the chair of the Senate National Parks Subcommittee and on behalf of Senator Daines, the Ranking Member of the Senate National Parks Subcommittee, today, I wish to recognize Betty Reid Soskin, who recently retired as the National Park…

A secret agency is an anomaly in a democracy.

Are you willing to say no to the Director of the CIA, and the President of the United States?

This isn't like the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Commerce... We're it.

I am a cosponsor of a piece of legislation introduced by Senator Angus King of Maine, the Preventive Home Visit Act.

it's really dangerous, and I think it's clearly the case, either he got bad intelligence and has been getting bad intelligence all the way along or he got good intelligence and didn't listen to it.

the danger is that Putin returns to his normal modus operandi of just hammering civilians and cities like he did in Aleppo with Assad and Graziani and Chechnya.

One of Putin's strategic goals is a land bridge, from Russia along the Black Sea to Crimea.

the Ukrainians have to be very careful to not get trapped obviously.

I certainly agree with the comments of the majority whip. My friend from Wyoming will be surprised that I think we have some agreement on the issue of infrastructure. When I was the Governor of Maine, we--we, the pipeline company but under…

I hope the Senator from Wyoming will stay so we might have a discussion. Why has the price of gasoline gone up? Why did it start going up about the same time that Joe Biden became President? Was it because of the cancelation of the…

I've always thought that we classify too much and that we really blunt the impact that we could have on international relations by not sharing, as long as we don't compromise sources and methods.

The Russians have a much lower threshold, for using nuclear weapons, than anybody else, in the world that I know of.

It's cynical, outrageous, and it shows the depravity of this guy that he calls this a humanitarian corridor, leading people into the arms of their enemy.

I voted to proceed to the consideration of the Women's Health Protection Act today with some reluctance, not because of any doubts about the substance of the bill--I have been a strong supporter of reproductive choice throughout my public…

do I get a response from the Senator from Indiana? Mr. President, we have two qualified nominees, reported out on a bipartisan basis by the Armed Services Committee at a moment of heightened international tension. The Senator from…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session and consider the following nominations en bloc: Calendar No. 599 and Calendar No. 693; that the Senate vote on the nominations en bloc without intervening action or…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--Executive Calendar