Yes, American families need our help, and I would tell you, sir, that their plight is not well-served by the kind of fearmongering that we have heard.

I believe in local control. And I trust our local officials to make the best decision for their respective airports.

It has been gratifying to hear so many good words said about the Ocean Shipping Reform Act.

Next week, we will be introducing the Ocean Shipping Reform Act 2.0.

We passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act out not once, not twice, not three times, but four times.

We want to do a better job of hitting the center of the target.

You have talked a bit about that. And I know we had 120 Members of Congress weigh in.

What have you done to facilitate the passenger travel for those with disabilities?

Let's conduct the research. PHMSA can get the data. The goal is for them to update their regulations with the know-how of 20 years of developments.

We must cement a critical mineral supply chain here in America. It is critical.

Quite a little bit of the national narrative over the last week has been about Republican disunity, and some have tried to apply that narrative to this rules package. I get it. I get it. It makes for a good story, but it just isn't so. I…

I continue to feel that we're making progress. And frankly, some of the rule changes that have been made are the right things to do anyway.

There is going to need to be some give and take because there is also a United States Senate and the American people, although I'm not very happy about it, put Chuck Schumer in charge of the US Senate.

We want to bend some of these curves in a way that doesn't continue to put us so much deeper in debt.

I have a chart showing monthly apprehensions of the southwest border since 2012. This little blip over here in 2014, this is the humanitarian crisis declared by President Obama when monthly apprehensions exceeded about 60,000 a month…

according to the National Association of State Budget Officers in a report it just issued, States are sitting on a surplus, cumulatively, of over $250 billion. In addition to that, they have rainy day funds approaching over $130 billion…

Yes. Vote on Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment with amendment No. 6526.

I ask unanimous consent for up to 6 minutes of debate equally divided. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Wisconsin.

I would argue that it is not a lawful order because the executive order required that the vaccine be fully FDA-approved. In August of 2021, the FDA did something very strange: They extended the emergency use authorization for the vaccine…

I move to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 7776 with an amendment numbered 6526. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Wisconsin…

how much time do I have left? The PRESIDING OFFICER. A minute and a half.

I rise to offer an amendment on behalf of myself and Senator Cruz. I want to say I appreciate Senate leadership for allowing this amendment. I appreciate, as does Senator Cruz, the conferees' willingness to consider or repeal the vaccine…

you will notice that the senior Senator from Vermont didn't talk about overall spending numbers. I would ask the President--I would ask anybody listening to these floor speeches today: Do you know how much the Federal Government spent last…

Fentanyl is being used in medicine today, and it is on schedule II. So they can do the research off of that drug on schedule II. There is nothing preventing that--nothing whatsoever.

I want to thank the gentlewoman and thank the gentleman for their words of support for this piece of legislation. I ask all my colleagues to support my bill. It would do exactly as the previous two speakers said. It would make things a lot…