I announce that my colleague from North Carolina, Senator Richard Burr, will be necessarily absent this week. He is at home in North Carolina recovering from hip replacement surgery. The procedure was successful, and he is doing well. He…

I want to thank my friend and colleague Senator Portman for his work and his focus on Ukraine, and I want to thank my friend and colleague Senator Shaheen. It has been a real pleasure once we started up the Senate NATO Observer Group after…

They are consistently, as a Government, turning a blind eye toward intellectual property theft.

I think it is having an impact, and the dozens of other nations who have followed suit.

I look at our greatest threat, it is China.

I will be brief. But I do want to talk about a serious subject. You know, 30 years ago, we wouldn't have been talking about email or social media or other things that we now rely on to receive communications, to be informed on political…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for up to 5 minutes prior to the scheduled votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Hearing none, without objection.

I want to thank Senator Shaheen and my colleagues on the floor here--Senators Coons, Ernst, Blunt, and the others who joined the bipartisan delegation at the NATO summit. It was an extraordinary opportunity to see firsthand how the…

I come to the floor today to sadly announce the retirement--or not retirement--my chief of staff's decision to move on to another great opportunity, and I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about Ted Lehman and not only the 5 years he…

I rise today to honor our brave, hard- working men and women in law enforcement as we celebrate their service during National Police Week. This week, thousands of law enforcement officers and their families will visit our Nation's Capitol…

Absurd. Too embarrassing.

Cawthorn had fallen well short of the most basic standards western North Carolina expects from the representatives.

Cawthorn owes North Carolinians an explanation.

You did such an amazing job raising your daughter.

I asked there she had any connection with the Arabella Group or Demand Justice, some of these other radical liberal activist organizations, she says she doesn`t. But she`s on her topic list, anywhere you go. Whether it`s Demand Justice…

It is more managing the process and priorities to make sure we are helping as many veterans as possible as quickly as possible.

I've also supported early release programs. I voted and supported the First Step Act.

I thought that you presented yourself well, and there was a lot of pressure.

They want to nuke the filibuster, 51 votes to make a decision that could ultimately be to pack the courts.

I hope we can all agree that many of the behavior or the positions that some of my colleagues took on the other side of the aisle with Justice Barrett was abhorrent, and we should never do it again.

I've actually written letters to the Department of Justice encouraging the release of nonviolent offenders in North Carolina at a Federal correctional facility.

They're thrilled that President Biden has promised to appoint a commission.

We must add four seats on the Supreme Court to restore balance.

The first African American female to be put forth for confirmation for the Supreme Court is quite extraordinary.

I was trying to make the point it was about freedom of speech.