we are going to go on to final passage, and I just want to make one comment that this is a really significant vote, not just because it is the NDAA and many of us contend, as I do, every year that the NDAA is the most significant vote that…

I suggest that this is the most significant bill we have passed in the last 59 years. Mr. President, I would ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived with respect to the motion to invoke cloture on the veto message on…

these are the last few words that Senator Reed and I will say before the vote, and I want to mention something that I haven't talked about as much as I probably should have. First of all, the cooperation and working with Senator Reed and…

OK. It is the 60th year that we have passed this, and it has passed every year. There were a few moments there where I thought maybe it wasn't going to pass this year and we would set a record. Senator Reed and I don't want to set that…

let me elaborate a little bit on something that my good friend from Rhode Island said about China. I think it is very, very significant that we realize that this is the toughest bill on China that has ever been passed. That didn't come…

this is what I have considered to be--and I have heard my friend from the Democratic side, the minority side, say the same thing, that this is the most significant bill that we pass every year. It is the NDAA, the National Defense…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll, and the following Senators entered the Chamber and answered to their names [Quorum No. 5 Leg.]…

I was disappointed last week when President Trump vetoed the NDAA. This will be the 60th year that we have had the NDAA. The NDAA is the National Defense Authorization Act, and I have said so many times, countless times--on the floor of…

I first went to meet with the then- Republican nominee for President of the United States, Donald Trump-- that was October of 2016. I was really struck by his commitment. It was kind of an interesting meeting. It was in the Trump Tower…

I want to make an observation here because I have been serving for quite some time in the U.S. Senate, and a lot of the things that are said on the Senate floor are not really all that significant, and yet the Members who are delivering…

6 days ago, on the 10th, I came down to the floor after having discovered something that happened. I think it really was not intentional the way it happened, but I would like to share that with you and share the frustration that I have…

for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the RECORDS on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that…