Let's turn the light on, and that is something I think we could find robust bipartisan agreement on.

I don't think everything is okay.

my home state Congressman Dusty Johnson is the lead sponsor of, has yet to be considered for a vote.

I think that this drive for efficiency has left our country with too little slack, with too little cushion.

We cannot do without food. And that means we can't let attention just drift away.

there are different needs based upon the areas that you are in.

it is going to require investments larger upfront to get many of those communities on pace.

We can no longer allow incrementalism to be the standard by which we measure success when dealing with the complex issues of climate and energy efficiency.

I think that there should be, in looking through the lenses of procedural justice, I think that we should be able to have a voice and be influential of what we are doing at the local level that best services that local community.

I thank Senator Grassley. What Senator Grassley and I have showed over the course of six speeches are the actual bank records of financial transactions tying President Biden's son Hunter and his brother James to businesses that are…

Thank you for prioritizing robust implementation and enforcement of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), particularly its dairy provisions.

We appreciate the strong action taken by the Administration in moving forward with USMCA's first dispute settlement case.

Translating this win into an outcome that delivers the full benefit of the agreement is vital for America's dairy industry.

We urge you to insist on much deeper reforms to bring Canada's dairy TRQ allocation system into compliance with its USMCA commitments.

I know of no further debate on the nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Contreras nomination?

as my colleague, the senior Senator from Iowa, has shown, Hunter Biden and James Biden received millions of dollars from companies connected to the communist Chinese regime. Frankly, it is worse than that. These companies were effectively…

I first want to thank the senior Senator from the State of Iowa for his tenacity in pursuing the truth and ignoring all of the false attacks lobbed against us during the course of our multiyear investigations into corruption at the highest…

I oppose the previous question so that we can, instead, consider the American Energy Independence from Russia Act. In recent weeks, we have all seen Europe struggle to navigate its dependence on Russian energy. It is terrible to be…

oftentimes when we talk rising crime, we talk about statistics. For example, last year in Milwaukee, there were 194 murders. As I prepared to give remarks yesterday, I got the stat that there were 26 murders already this year. That is an…

some provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) are not tailored toward the needs of Indian Country

Some have suggested that the supply chain crisis has eased. Now, to be sure, important progress has been made, but serious problems still exist, and now is not the time for us to take our foot off the gas. Notably, although this body has…

We have a dire need for healthcare facilities, schools, roads, and justice facilities.

The message we have heard today, loud and clear, from both sides of the aisle is that if we care about sustainability, economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, we need the innovation and leadership of the American ag…

These are happy, optimistic, solutions-focused people who want to make the world a better place.

We want to feed the world, we want to do so sustainably.