I rise today to continue an important Senate tradition. Each year, beginning in 1896, on a day near in time to George Washington's birthday, a Senator, alternating between parties, stands in the Senate to read Washington's Farewell…

I rise today--and I know other colleagues have done the same--to talk about H.J. Res. 142, the resolution we will be voting on later. It is a resolution that would overturn a recent law passed by the DC City Council regarding local taxes…

I believe immigrants are a strength and not a problem. That doesn't mean there aren't issues that we need to resolve, but I think it is high time that people in this Chamber talked about immigrants to this country and recognized the…

I think it is time--not just because of the shutdown--it is time to advance these bills to the President's desk. I appreciate that colleagues are recognizing what we need to do is advance those bills and then focus in a very intense…

thank you so much, and what an honor it is to be together with our colleagues from Minnesota to appreciate their leadership and how they stood in the gap for Minnesotans who have really suffered in these last weeks, to be together with so…

long past time for Congress to reassert its critical constitutional role in matters of war, peace, diplomacy and trade.

Only Congress can declare war — or in the modern phrase contained in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, authorize the use of military force in hostilities.

Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans…

I want to state very clearly that I do not challenge, nor does this resolution challenge, the execution of a valid arrest warrant against Nicolas Maduro. That valid arrest warrant bringing him to justice in the United States will be good…

I think it is important on matters of this importance, especially war, when 200 combatants have been killed--and that number is climbing--when U.S. troops have been injured--two still in the hospital--when U.S. assets are arrayed around…

I rise to speak about the invasion of Venezuela that the U.S. military carried out last weekend, which will be the subject of a War Powers Resolution vote on Thursday morning. The news that President Trump had ordered an invasion of…

I rise with my colleagues and thank them for gathering to talk about this most important anniversary. I think all of us are used to giving speeches on the Senate floor to an empty Chamber. When you grow up and you learn about the Senate…

The news has just broken today that President Trump has ordered the seizure of an oil tanker-- not a drug-running boat, but an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela has been seized by the U.S. Coast Guard. Tensions are escalating, and the…

I rise today with colleagues to talk about the vote we will cast tomorrow on extending Affordable Care Act premium tax credits. We missed an opportunity in June. In June, the reconciliation bill that was passed by the Senate contained $1…

It was time to 'close the book' on the wars.

We’re going to have the health-care debate in full view of the American public, and they’re going to see who’s standing up for them on affordability and who’s not.

Juan Orlando Hernandez is the former President of Honduras, a country I lived in when I worked with Jesuit missionaries in 1980 and 1981. In a landmark criminal prosecution, he was convicted by a jury in an American Federal court of a…

It completely undercuts the administration’s claim that they really care about narco-trafficking, and that raises the question of what is really going on with the Venezuela operation.

If the report was accurate, the attack rises to the level of a war crime.

This rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true

If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DoD's own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance.

The president's decision to say, OK, this particular criminal, who should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, who came in under an asylum grant... don't say that all Afghans in the United States... are bad.

It's time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say-so, which is not what the Constitution allowed.

The circumstances have changed in the months since we had that vote.

This is shocking. And again, this is not an individual who was accused of running drugs to the United States. He was convicted in a federal court in the United States.