I ask unanimous consent that Jermaine Jackson, Julia Burnell, Steven Ramdilal, and Tracy Fasolino, who are fellows in my office, be granted floor privileges for the duration of their assignments to my office. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I rise as a member of the Armed Services Committee to discuss the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be our Nation's Secretary of Defense. Let me make two preliminary comments. First, my philosophy about voting on nominees is to give deference…

I hope we can take this up in the Budget Committee. I have some Budget Committee colleagues who are here on the floor. Senator Whitehouse has been the lead Democrat on the Budget Committee for some time and is now at the helm of another…

I will just direct it, and my answer is going to reveal my naivete because my corporate sector in Virginia--and my companies were like everybody's companies--were saying: Hey, drop that 35 percent rate to 28. I may have had one that said…

Precisely zero, even though that phrase that ``they will pay for themselves'' or that ``they have paid for themselves'' was used all the time, but no one would, under oath, say that that actually happened. It reminds me of a great…

I join my colleagues on the same topic to talk about the forthcoming debate that we will have about tax policies in this Chamber. Since coming to Congress--really before, when I was a mayor and Governor--I advocated for smart, simple…

I spoke on the Senate floor on December 11 about birthright citizenship--the guarantee contained in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are deemed…

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate on the bill, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 3391) was passed.

I am glad to be here with my colleagues from Tennessee and Alabama to speak about this Mexican government's unfair, discriminatory treatment of Vulcan Materials and to encourage colleagues to support the Defending American Property Abroad…

in 2013, in my first year in the Senate, a 10-year-old child in Virginia, Loudoun County, named Gabriella Miller passed away from an inoperable brain tumor. Nothing could be worse for a family. Her parents, Ellyn and Mark, and her brother…

I appreciate my colleagues Senator Warner and Senator Van Hollen. We just had a press conference where Senator Cardin and Senator Hirono also came to speak about the importance of this issue. As everybody knows--you learned this in civics…

just a brief response. My colleague from Missouri mentioned the fact that recent decisions of the Supreme Court have put more burden on the shoulders of Congress not to abdicate decision-making responsibility but to own it, and that is…

I rise today to discuss a fundamental question: Who is a citizen of the United States? My comments are inspired by an interview given recently by the President-elect in which he announced that he would try to end birthright citizenship on…

Our sanctions work best when we do coordinate with other countries.

The primary goal is to change behavior.

the gross abuse of human rights that is going on in the country.

My analysis, kind of--you know, inchoate analysis of sanctions in the 12 years I have been here is that we have been better at using sanctions to impose pain and not so good at using sanctions to change behavior.

I want to assure you, Mr. Chairman, that we are going to pursue this into the next Administration.

My analysis, kind of--you know, inchoate analysis of sanctions in the 12 years I have been here is that we have been better at using sanctions to impose pain and not so good at using sanctions to change behavior.

Our sanctions work best when we do coordinate with other countries.

We do not impose sanctions for punitive reasons. We impose sanctions for change of behavior.

This is a clear, missed opportunity to use Global Magnitsky sanctions.

We do not impose sanctions for punitive reasons. We impose sanctions for change of behavior.

We have to consider how we can use the tools at our disposal to defend basic rights.

We have to consider how we can use the tools at our disposal to defend basic rights.