I rise today to join my Republican colleagues from Louisiana and Maine to make a plea for us to break any partisan logjam and support bipartisan, commonsense solutions. I want to especially commend Senator Cassidy, who from the beginning…

I rise to speak about the campaign currently underway to select the next president of the Inter-American Development Bank in September of this year. The IDB has served as the preeminent development bank in the Americas since 1959. For more…

This won't protect American lives or interests. It leaves Americans sick and America alone.

it is especially the President of the United States--the person who leads our Nation--who should be a unifying force, not one who incites violence; therefore, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from Utah

we have learned something today. We have learned that my colleagues are unwilling to call out the President of the United States when the President of the United States uses language that incites violence; says that White supremacists in…

further parliamentary inquiry. There is not a question of mob violence. The question is that imputing to Members who did not agree with the framework and language of this resolution that they are supporting mob violence--that must be in…

parliamentary inquiry. Is this line not in direct violation of rule XIX? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair concludes that pointing out that mob violence is dangerous to our Nation is not contrary to rule XIX or any other rule of the Senate.

reserving the right to object, look, there are nuggets in the Senator's resolution--certainly recognizing that, overwhelmingly, law enforcement does an honorable and valuable job in our society. It is a tough job. The bad ones make it…

I thank the Senator from Louisiana for his words and for his support, and I wish we had this already. It is not very difficult--transparency, information for which consumers can make decisions and investors can make decisions, and you…

I am not surprised, but I am deeply disappointed that my colleague takes that position. First of all, the SEC has had a diversity rule since 2009. It has a diversity rule, but the diversity rule as they devised it doesn't do anything about…

I appreciate the intellectual exercise we are going through on the floor. I will just make two final comments because I know that my colleague is anxiously waiting to talk about the need for people to be able to put food on the table…

I rise to speak to S. 3669, the COVID-19 International Response and Recovery Act of 2020. As of this weekend, there are an estimated 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide. More than 2.5 million of those cases are right here in…