On that day, you issued rules of engagement that included what, specifically?

I believe that, if I heard your comments correctly, that quick reaction team was there to respond as needed, including protection of the Capitol.

I send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Senator Merkley submits a question for the House managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: If a President spins a big lie to anger Americans…

Well, I think they laid out that, when you think about incitement, you can think about three basic things. The first is, did a person lay out a cause? And, of course, that`s the -- Trump saying, that election has been stolen. Did they…

And then the third part of incitement is, did you take that anger and did you focus it on a particular event? Did you incite an event? And, of course, what we learned was that he rescheduled what was supposed to happen after the…

And then, when they proceeded to beat up police officers, he remained silent. And, in fact, we now hear he was delighted, he was pleased and wondered why other people weren`t as pleased as he was.

Will you make sure that in the budget we fund the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families?

Will you be fair to Democrats and Republicans alike on issues that have been passed by legislation?

And will you take a close look at rules the Trump administration put forward that were trying to undermine the Flores Settlement Agreement which required the humanitarian treatment of children?

we are 11 months into the most severe healthcare crisis this country or the world has seen in more than a century. And for much of this past year, we haven't done anywhere close to enough to help the millions of Americans who are…

He deliberately sought to create a tremendous reaction to his claim that the election was stolen.

Well, I think the main witness is going to be the tapes of President Trump himself, what he said, and both verbally and, in the context of video, of how he was doing it. This is about, did he incite an insurrection, and the connections…

In terms of the impact it had on those who stormed the Capitol, maybe some of those would be a good witness to remind us that they were inspired by Trump. This was not a false flag operation. This was not an Antifa operation. This was core…

the biggest challenge testing human civilization is whether we can tackle climate chaos.

I have two other team members who are leaving. Laura Updegrove is leaving us to work with the Biden administration. She came to us after serving in various foreign policy roles at the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the…

our third team member who is leaving is Ben Ward. I think of Ben as our appropriations wizard. He knows that system inside out, and he is the master of Tribal issues and natural resources issues and so much more. He is heading off to serve…

when we have a new administration, lots of changes take place--changes in offices, changes in committee assignments--but for all of us here in the Senate, perhaps the most challenging change is when members of our team decide to open new…

I appreciated the President's pledge to aim at a 100-percent clean energy economy, net zero emissions by 2050.

I will tell you that anyone who instructed the Army to lie to Congress and the American people, that is conduct unbecoming an officer, and that should have consequences.

It`s just an out -- it`s a completely outrageous demand by McConnell.

There were two insurrections. There was an insurrection from outside the building and there`s an insurrection inside the building.

The guiding principle is power quest. How do I get that? I show that the team in office that can`t function, so I have a case for replacing them.

Yes, absolutely. They`re doing great harm to America, and they should be fired, removed, tossed as quickly as possible.

Will we terminate the so-called Safe Third Country Agreements with the Northern Triangle countries?

I had authored a provision that required the administration, whichever administration, to respond by April to evaluate China's actions with the treatment of the Uighurs, and that has now been done with today's determination by the…