I am on the floor today to talk about border security--a humanitarian, a national security, a community safety issue with direct connection to the drug epidemic we see in communities all around the country, including my home State of Ohio…

D.C. is experiencing a crime surge. There have been over 200 more armed robberies this year than last year at this time.

At the beginning of this year there were more than 10,000 criminal cases pending. That is more than double the number from 2020.

Before we talk about Ukraine, this has been a time over the last couple of weeks since we were last here in session of a lot of change and volatility around the world. I want to begin by expressing my shock and sorrow over the…

First, I want to thank my colleague and cofounder and cochair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus for his comments today. What you just heard was that the White House has sent the application for membership to NATO for Finland and Sweden to the…

I also come to the floor today, as was noted, to talk about Ukraine. Russia's brutal assault continues. We must do more here, not just in the United States but around the world, to help Ukraine stand up to this brutality. This marks the…

If confirmed you will be doing something very important which is to serve the people of D.C. but also get the backlog down and deal with a public safety crisis.

We do not take advantage of these relatively pro-democracy pro-U.S. center and center right governments enough.

Your leadership and commitment to public service is inspirational, particularly with the national security challenges facing our country.

We need your help. I mean, this is discouraging what is going on.

Eight hundred and seventy million dollars a day is about what the Europeans are sending to Russia to help fund the war machine and so we need to see a change there.

It is a good model to emulate.