I think we have an incredible nominee in Mr. Wainstein. He has served our government in the Justice Department at the FBI at virtually every level. I think if my colleague, the Senator from Kentucky, is concerned about this, we ought to…

I rise today to call for the rapid confirmation of Kenneth Wainstein to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, or I&A, sits at a critical…

What we really have in this country is a supply issue in affordable housing.

I think I am paying a fair share, but I agree with the Chairman.

We have got to find a way that some of the wealthiest Americans in our country do pay their fair share.

I do think, you know, having a couple of years of COVID and the fact that there may be Members of Congress that are not as familiar with the Smithsonian...

I appreciate how difficult it has been to manage the institutions through COVID.

Well, I would just say Chair Klobuchar and Ranking Member Blunt have been great at bringing Members of Congress.

I think the great strength of the Smithsonian is that we give different portals into what it means to be an American.

I hope we can still put some of those plans in place going forward, so if we ever have the kind of crisis we had around a COVID-type experience we have a more efficient system in place.

I have worked since then with my great friends, Tim Kaine, to make sure we actually take out of Statutory Hall the statue of Robert E. Lee and replace it with hopefully Barbara Johns.

We ought to sanction the whole Russian Duma for being complicit with Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

I want to commend that.

I believe there is some value in digital assets. I think we need to continue to explore it.

I think we ought to broaden those sanctions, and I think the legislation... will ratchet off that ability to evade those critically important sanctions.

I rise today in support of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, which is included as division Y in the Senate amendment to H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022. Cyber attacks and…

The people of Ukraine demonstrate a bravery and a commitment to defend their country against the madness of Putin's attempt at authoritarian subjugation.

The world should live in peace, the world should live in a pluralistic way, by which he meant with freedom of speech, freedom of religion, self-determination--and that's what's at stake here.

I want to first express, though, my enormous, enormous gratitude for the accuracy with which the IC predicted Putin's plans to invade Ukraine.

Right now, Putin is waging an illegal and disastrous war in Ukraine.

Truth is, right now, NATO is more unified than ever.

if Congress had just followed Senator Collins ten or eleven years ago, we might be further along on the cyber issue.

I'm proud to say that in the budget bill that hopefully we'll take up the next day or two--it's already passed the House--we finally have put in place a cyber-notification process.

While Putin was lying to us and to the Ukrainians and his own people, your people were ascertaining the truth, and we were warning the world.

I truly believe that whoever wins the technology race in the 21st century will lead to economic and other levels of dominance.