I rise today to express my support for S.J. Res. 2, a resolution of disapproval on lifting sanctions against the energy and aluminum companies En+, RUSAL, and EuroSibEnergo. To start from the beginning, the United States of America has had…

let me pick up where my friend the Senator from Virginia left off. We are now in the history books: the longest shutdown in American history on this President's watch--a President who, a few weeks back, said he would be proud to own this…

first of all, I want to thank my good friend and colleague from Virginia, Senator Kaine, for appropriately saying to the balance of the Senate yesterday that this is not business as usual and for objecting to our going into recess as…

As somebody who has been in the private sector longer than the public sector, like my friend the Senator from Virginia, we both had the honor of being Governors of Virginia. We have both been in executive positions. We have both been in…

first of all, I want to thank my colleague the Senator from Connecticut for giving me a chance to very briefly-- less than 1 minute--add my voice as well. I echo what my friend the Senator from Vermont has said. I want to commend the…

I rise today out of deep frustration with the Trump administration's treatment of Federal workers due to the government shutdown. It has been 17 days since more than 380,000 Federal workers were furloughed and more than 450,000 began…

I want to join my colleagues from Maryland and my friend, the Senator from Virginia, as well, to speak out on this manufactured crisis. This President is holding 800,000 Federal workers hostage, folks who are going to work, some of them…

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Kaine and I each be permitted to speak for up to 5 minutes prior to the scheduled vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would like to see him stay to make sure that there is someone who is vested in Mueller finishing the job, doing it independently and making sure that the American people get the facts.

I have real concerns about Bill Barr being the attorney general since he seemed to have lobbied for the job by showing that he wants to undermine the special prosecutor and that he feels that the President is not subject to the laws of the…

Well, listen, that is a legitimate question to ask. What did the President know? When did he know it? We've had this evidence throughout the whole Trump campaign where Donald Trump refused to ever say a bad word about Russia, about…

I believe that clearly Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, shared confidential polling information with a known Russian agent, Mr. Kilimnik. And what we don't know is what did the Russians do with this information.

This appears as the closest we've seen yet to real live actual collusion. Clearly, Manafort was trying to collude with Russian agents. And the question is what did the President know? What did Donald Trump know about this exchange of…

I wholeheartedly support the nomination of VADM Joseph Maguire to be the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, NCTC. Had I been able to cast my vote today, it would have been to support this exceptional-nominee. The Director of…

I want to join with the chairman of the committee and basically echo what he has said. Bill Evanina is a true professional. I have had a chance to work with him for a number of years in my role on the Intelligence Committee and, more…

I am going to be here on another matter in a moment, but I wanted to add my thanks to the great work that Senator Kyl has done. I remember coming here as a freshman Senator in early 2009, and Jon Kyl was one of the people who was kind…

I rise today because our national parks have been neglected for far too long. Due to years of chronic underfunding, the Park Service has been forced to defer maintenance on thousands of assets, including trails, buildings, and historic…

first of all, I thank my colleague from Pennsylvania for his impassioned plea and his work on this legislation. I intend to support this legislation. I know the story he just told and the notion that SIDS is still such a challenge to so…

I think a lot of us desperately want to get to a better solution.

But, again, you are going to come back to--your emphasis is going to be more data is always better, right?

I think we need stronger rules about beneficial ownership.

I have seen estimates that we are talking about the cost to the financial system of about $8 billion.

I think there is a lot of interest in seeing how we can improve this system.

But if we are talking about $8 billion and how we spend it better, if there was a way through AI with privacy protection for the banks to actually share information, would not that be helpful too?

I would also love for us to see if we could get some analysis because, again, I am not sure that simply raising the threshold makes that much--but I would be curious to know how many of these entities fall between--we will use Senator…