Thank you both for your testimony today and thank you also for your service at a time of great risk throughout the world.

I rise to speak in favor of the Grassley- Cruz substitute. Now that the previous vote has been taken, I would suggest this is a bill we all should be able to support. This is a bill that provides major resources to prosecuting violent…

I rise to speak on the Grassley-Cruz substitute amendment. This amendment has come through the extended process of consideration of legislation and, indeed, I think this amendment has come to pass precisely the way the process should…

I think that is ordinarily the right process to follow. In this case, this bill, this substitute took considerable time and was the result of extended negotiation among a great many Senators. And I know my friend from West Virginia has…

I rise to speak against this amendment. It is worthwhile to strengthen the protections against straw purchasing and trafficking, but unfortunately this language, in my judgment, is overbroad and in particular has a real risk of…

What is not the exact same is extending it to a private individual selling to another private individual.

I rise to honor the memory of Margaret Thatcher. When she passed, the United States lost a great ally and the world lost one of the greatest champions of liberty who has ever lived. I commend our colleague Senator Mitch McConnell for today…

My office received the text of this bill at 2:25 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17th, five days ago.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribute to Margaret Thatcher

Incentivizing private sector investment in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) is exactly what is needed to initiate and incubate needed competitive future strategic U.S. intermodal/multi-modal freight projects.

the bill introduced by you and Senator Rockefeller, the 'American Infrastructure Investment Fund Act' is, as I understand it, an important strategic legislative effort to establish a $5 billion fund that could provide incentives for…

Now, Commissioner Smith, would you agree that that is their First Amendment right to do so that should be entirely protected under the Bill of Rights?