Rob Portman: “This is not a position that has to go through our confirmation process.”

I come to the floor tonight as we are hearing media reports that President Zelenskyy of Ukraine will be coming to Washington tomorrow to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. I hope that is an accurate report. I think it is…

We recommend that to help reverse bird declines the Joint Ventures be allocated $20 million.

I look forward to getting into this issue of the balance between free speech and the hate speech that leads to violence because it is a line that has to be drawn.

I come to the floor of the Senate tonight for the 25th consecutive week while the Senate has been in session to talk about the brutal and illegal and unprovoked war on Ukraine by Russia--Ukraine, a democratic nation, an ally of ours who…