Sweeping up low-level players, while ignoring the kingpins upstream, isn`t a full investigation.

There has to be a closure -- some form of closure.

In the spirit of ``what goes around comes around,'' let me just say that the First Circuit is a good deal smaller than the Ninth Circuit. My State of Rhode Island is in the First Circuit. We didn't have many vacancies during the Trump…

I think we have concluded this matter for the evening, and I am sorry that it has ended this way because Mr. Bonilla and Ms. Lerner are essentially collateral damage in a fight that does not involve the Court of Federal Claims at all. This…

I am here on the floor to ask for some courtesy for a pair of nominees. These are nominees to the Court of Federal Claims, which is the court to which citizens can come with claims against the Federal Government. In the Court of Federal…

I just want to thank my colleague Senator Cotton and my chairman Senator Durbin for the way in which that resolved itself. For a minute, we actually feel like a Senate here.

This has to be that day. I have been here quite a while now, and I have been fobbed off and fobbed off and fobbed off over and over again.

There is a huge discrepancy between what inland States get and what coastal States get if you adjust for population.

I am preparing a bill to change the name of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the Upland and Freshwater Conservation Fund.

If we don't figure out the allocation issues for the revenues coming from the new, from offshore wind and everything else, we will never get ahead of it.

The dangers to our coasts are very, very real. The environmental upheaval that is happening along our coasts is very, very real.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

You see that Trump has got these candidates in his Trump slate that he`s trying to move into Georgia, and that`s one issue.

I did not see him as somebody who was going to be this allied with Trump for this particular reason.

We are totally not doing enough.

Georgia could be the place Trump goes for redemption but Georgia could also be the place where justice comes for Trump.

We do feel the urgency in getting this rulemaking out.

I was an original author and sponsor of the Innovation and Modernization Act.

the Republican Party, this radicalized Republican Party is now changing how elections will be run, where they control state legislatures and how the votes will be counted.

I rise today to honor Janet Coit, one of Rhode Island's most respected environmental advocates. Ms. Coit is the newly appointed Assistant Administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries…

as if in executive session, I ask unanimous consent that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the following treaty transmitted to the Senate on November 16, 2021, by the President of the United States: Amendment to Montreal Protocol…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

I understand there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 3206) to…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

For the information of the Senate, there will be two rollcall votes at 10 a.m. on cloture on the Nelson nomination and cloture on the motion to proceed to the NDAA. ____________________