Patrick Leahy: “I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). The clerk will call the roll. The senior…”

I understand the floor vote is going to be soon. I ask unanimous consent that it be after I finish my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

People in the Trump administration who know nothing and care less about these programs are arbitrarily jeopardizing relations with a strategic partner in one of the most challenging regions of the world.

Congress was the original classification authority (OCA). It let that power essentially slip away to the Executive Branch.

the 11th of December marked the 6-month anniversary of the violent death of widely respected Palestinian- American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. On May 19, I echoed Secretary of State Blinken's call for an ``independent, credible…