I ask for the yeas and nays. Vote on Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant…

I understand the Senate has received H.J. Res. 75 from the House. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). The Senator is correct.

I move to proceed to H.J. Res. 75. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 75, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under…

You can’t look at this today and recognize it for anything other than being unacceptable.

It’s a political exercise. It has no hope in them in the House, and I don’t do messaging bills.

I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call with respect to the Meador nomination be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

this morning, we had a Finance Committee meeting, and Ambassador Greer was there, our U.S. Trade Representative, whom I voted for and have a lot of confidence in. I asked him a line of questions. Then I saw the press getting lazy and not…

I ask unanimous consent to waive the mandatory quorum calls with respect to the Johnson and Cabrera nominations. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, at 4:30 p.m., the Senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Hoekstra nomination; further, that at 6 p.m., the Senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Johnson and…

I ask unanimous consent that the rollcall vote begin now. I believe it was scheduled for 6 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

he does believe that we’re a coequal branch.

If we’re going to be more constrained, then you have to look at the core of what we need to get done.

I will be brief. I know we are coming up on a vote. I just wanted to come to the floor and thank my friend and fellow North Carolinian, Louis DeJoy, for his service as Postmaster General. He announced a few weeks back his intent to resign…

I’m not sure. I think that that’ll be a problem for a number of members, because of it feeling a bit like the slippery slope of nuking the filibuster.

This is my promise. Anybody that communicates a death threat to me, if we catch you, I’m pressing charges.

Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats.’

Look, the House has to do what the House has to do to get their baseline vote. The Senate has to do what the Senate has to do to get a baseline vote.

Not what you want to hear.

That's not what you want to hear.

I come here to speak briefly about the status of the peace talks led by the United States and President Trump involving both Ukraine and Putin. First, I want to thank President Trump for--there is one thing that President Trump has been…

not what you want to hear.

last night, I had someone reach out to me and say they heard I was going to speak again on Ukraine on the floor, and they asked me what I was going to talk about. I said to reinforce that Ukraine needs our help, that Europe needs to step…

Behavior by people like this guy, it’s the thing that’s the single greatest threat to us to deliver the majority next year.

Anything that [Schwartz] represents in Congress, he better not have his fingerprints on it, because I’m a reflexive no to anything he represents.

Arthur Schwartz is a political hack that should probably just keep on being a smart guy and a billionaire, because he’s a s----- political consultant.