There is talk around the budget about building ships and even destroyers in Japan and Korea. That is the worst idea since the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

At best, illegal robocalls are a constant annoyance — at worst, they’re scams that target our most vulnerable citizens or tie up businesses’ phone lines.

Let's talk about the National Park Service. You and I talked about this before. [The] National Park Service budget is cut by one third. About $1 billion, which is one day of the Iran war just to put it in context. I don't understand why.

I understand there's always room for rightsizing and analysis of staffing and those kinds of things, but this is not a gotcha question. I'm puzzled why the administration would cut by one third the funding of one of the most important…

Veterans and military families should not see the value of their earned benefits undercut by rising costs.

There is no such thing as mandatory spending except in areas where there is a legal obligation to expend the money.

"What's going on now, because of the illegal war in Iran, is drastically affecting our national security and will continue to do so in affecting the people of America."

If there has been such, I would certainly like to see it. You probably knew I was going to bring this chart. This is FTEs in the National Park Service going back 10 or 15 years. Here's where we are now. We were understaffed back then.

I would like to begin talking a little bit about history, generally, rather than the topic that has been the subject of the prior remarks, and then get into the question that has been raised today. There are several cliches about history…

this is a nonpartisan CRA, which doesn't happen around here all that often. This is basically just public participation in good government. When the Administrative Procedure Act was passed in 1947, the Department of Health and Human…

There are many problems with the plan as it has been reported, but the two most obvious are that it rewards Russia's illegal and unprovoked aggression by handing over substantial portions of Ukraine's sovereign territory, and its security…

It rewards aggression. This is pure and simple. There’s no ethical, legal, moral, political justification for Russia claiming eastern Ukraine.

It wasn't working. It's been six weeks.

We are in an ongoing, serious, and debilitating conflict in the world of cyber. It is one of the most serious threats this country faces. In fact, right at this moment, it is probably the most serious threat this country faces from…

I just came from the Senate floor, where I took one of the most difficult votes I’ve taken since I’ve been in the Senate.

The irony, the paradox is by shutting the government, we’re actually giving Trump more power. And that was why I voted yes.

The context is entirely different. The time is different. The president is different. I don’t see supporting anything that accelerates this president’s project to dismantle our government.

I had just had it. I kept expecting that Israel would wake up and realize what an awful thing they were perpetuating, and that surely they would at least open up humanitarian aid. They just continued to not do it, and I just reached the…

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

Israel's actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.

that tragic event cannot in turn justify the enormous toll on Palestinian civilians caused by Israel's relentless bombing campaign and its indifference to the current plight of those trapped in what's left of Gaza.

I cannot defend the indefensible... I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government.

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

The starvation gripping Gaza is a deliberately induced famine among a civilian population—including tens of thousands of starving children and can never be an acceptable military strategy.

I cannot defend the indefensible. Israel’s actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.