Ben Sasse

the United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice, one for the majority party and one for the minority party.

These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because who have the president was when the investigations began.

like so many here today, I rise to honor John McCain and to sing John McCain's praises. There are many here--most here--who knew him longer than I did. I will admit that when the Presiding Officer and I first got here in 2014, I knew John…

I find it really difficult to envision any circumstance where I would vote to confirm a successor to Jeff Sessions if he is fired because he's executing his job rather than choosing to act as a partisan hack.

I rise today to speak to the issue of the leadership of the Department of Justice. It has been a strange couple of hours around this building with lots of talk about firing the Attorney General. I would just like to say in public what I…

I come to the floor today to talk about what happened in Helsinki today. Let's not mince words. Today was a terrible day for the American brand, for the American people, and for all of our allies. We did not negotiate from a position of…

one of the most consequential duties of the Senate is the consideration of a Supreme Court nominee. This is the Congress's opportunity to shape the direction of the Federal courts and to defend a judiciary that is focused on laws, not…

Absolutely we should be ending anonymous companies created in the United States. It is way overdue.

So your CFO point is almost exactly where I was going to go.

You said they are going to have a CFO.

Thank you. Do the other two of you want to add anything on specific techniques that you see?

We can and must do better than this.

We do not know a lot about the questions that you have asked, and I think we need to create a market to get data.

It seems to me that those feedback loops matter for three reasons.

We really do need to invest in protected financial investigative teams that can go after sophisticated money launderers.

We have a series of votes coming up, so we are going to have to wind up in about 10 minutes.

the administration's decision to separate families is a new discretionary choice. Anyone saying that their hands are tied or that the only conceivable way to fix the problem of catch and release is to rip families apart is flat wrong.

I rise to draw attention to one particularly important element of the National Defense Authorization Act, which sits before this body. First, it is worth noting that--despite the bizarre dysfunction of the last couple of days around…

If you were 'King for a day,' and you could put a bunch of chips on one of three bets, K-12, educational preparedness, workforce training and redevelopment for people post age 18 or sort of mobility incentives to try to think about the…

Honestly, I would put my bet on preparing people for the 16 million middle-skilled jobs that this country has to fill between now and 2025 that require solid secondary education and post-secondary licenses and certifications and…

I yield back all time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, all time is yielded back. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Pizzella nomination?

I think violence has no place on your platform. Sex traffickers and human traffickers have no place on your platform.

I would not want you to leave here today and think there is sort of a unified view in the Congress that you should be moving toward policing more and more and more speech.

I think the conceptual line between mere tech company, mere tools and an actual content company, I think it is really hard.

I think that America needs to figure out and create the set of principles that we want American companies to operate under.