I am also going to try to reauthorize very soon the Leahy bulletproof vests bill.

If it works in the State system, we ought to adopt it at the federal system.

And I agree, and they are important. And it is also important to not fight over the quarters but rather fight for a result.

Not on our streets, not in our town.

Without the funding secured by Senator Leahy over the years--and it does go back decades--our ability to operate the Drug Task Force at the level of success it enjoys today would not be possible.

This is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

We have to have realistic discussions of the issues communities face from opiate and other substance abuse...

This is not a political issue. This is our children. These are our family members.

We have to be in it together.

we spent 42 trillion in Iraq, and he was wondering, you know, that money might have been spent in other places.

We need an American foreign policy that is rooted in our values and the example we set and which we can credibly ask others to follow.

There is strong bipartisan support to help Jordan.

Senator Graham and I joined together to get this through the Senate, and we got it through the Senate with a bipartisan majority.

He travels around the world to see how our programs are working or not working.

He has been a strong defender of the national interests that the budget protects.

Obviously, today we are focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and there will be questions about that.

I think the most important thing is we continue the negotiations, and I do not think the Congress, whether responding to various lobbies or not, is a place to conduct a negotiation.

I think all of us hope we can get agreement on a bill that the President can sign, so we just don't have speeches on the floors of both bodies, but no piece of legislation at the end.

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