today we took another giant step on something that has been a lot harder than it should have been and could have been because it actually started last June when I rose before this body--June of 2021--to speak about the critical need to…

I have seven requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I ask unanimous consent that I am able to speak and followed by Senator Cortez Masto to be able to speak before the Senate adjourns for the weekly caucus lunches. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. H.R. 4346

I think it is critically important from a competitiveness standpoint, national security standpoint, that we go ahead and pass the CHIPS legislation.

I want to thank my friend the Senator from Iowa for giving me a moment of personal privilege. I also want to acknowledge our colleague who has been the Presiding Officer. I want to acknowledge our colleague who was presiding prior to you…

My hope is, since we have made that transference--and, obviously, we have got to make sure Phase 2 is safe, but that we do that safety assessment is as timely a manner as possible.

I look forward to working with you and, again, I appreciate your prior experience working with Metro.

I just want to say I know many of us recognized your enormous service yesterday, and we really appreciate it and so much today, the day after your 50th birthday, appreciate the fact that you are presiding over this august body. I yield the…

I rise today on behalf of myself, Vice Chairman Rubio, Senator Blunt, and all members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to recognize the service and accomplishments of VADM Robert D. Sharp and congratulate him on his upcoming…

the reality of the Fed moving in a meaningful way on these questions I think has been less than the rhetoric.

I do think the sophistication of some of the misinformation, disinformation, I do think we have to look at those election workers themselves being victims of some of this misinformation, disinformation.

one of the reasons we have tailoring is because we did the reforms in 2155.

I really do hope, whether it comes out of the Chairwoman in the Rules Committee's efforts or out of this bipartisan effort that we get that Electoral Count Act reform legislation to the President as quickly as possible.

I do think while we cannot mandate, you know, a single type of ballot, there ought to be some level of incentives...

I think we all are a little concerned with some of the folks who have been election deniers who are being nominated around the country, some as recently as this week.

I just want to again say thank you to so many of my Republican colleagues, frankly led by Senator Crapo, who helped really work to get that $12 billion.

This misinformation, disinformation plague is happening across democracies everywhere...

I know Senator Cortez Masto, this is something she has worked on, Senator Van Hollen has worked on.

China does have a deliberate, published national economic and national security strategy to achieve the very levels of domination.

There needs to be some discussion about where we want to go.

The Chinese for the last 15 to 20 years have used the international standards regime as a trade weapon.

I want to protect semiconductors because that's the hill I want to die on.

I don't think we can rely on that to save us, but I do think it's a factor in what's going on now.

our beef is not with 1.4 billion Chinese people created in the image of God. It's with the Chinese Communist Party and their malevolence and their export of surveillance-state autocracies and their genocide in Xinjiang and more and more.

Let me be clear at the outset. When I talk about China, my beef is with the Communist Party of China.