Mr. President, I want to thank our friends from North Dakota, from West Virginia, and from Nebraska for being here today to talk about producing low-cost energy, which would reduce emissions. I am from an energy-producing State. In Texas…

Well, thank you all for the good work you've done modernizing the background check system.

There's really a clash between those values, our democracy with the public's right to know, the need to receive information upon which to judge the performance of public officials.

Madam President, this week, the Senate is expected to vote on legislation that would repeal the authorization for use of military force in Iraq. The bill before the Senate would repeal two separate authorizations-- one from 1991, which…

I don't believe any more legislation will move on the issue in the next two years.

Mr. President, every day, I hear from my constituents, the people I represent in Texas--some of the 30 million people I have the honor of representing--and they ask me why they aren't seeing more solutions offered by the U.S. Congress to…

I want to just say the one thing I would congratulate the Biden administration on is their commitment to implement the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

But we made the single largest investment in community-based mental health care in American history.

I think the Biden administration has completely dropped the ball when it comes to the border, and unfortunately, we have seen all of these deaths.

I would like to ask if you will be willing to work with us--particularly the chairman, the ranking member, who obviously will set the agenda--in working on all of these issues as part of the same problem.

Do you believe we have a public health crisis when it comes to these overdose deaths?