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6,117 Senate floor speeches with body text since January 1, 2025.
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I do not relent the floor. I do not relent the floor. I do not have to yield. I do not yield. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma has the floor. Madam President, I do not relent the floor. This is an issue when we start talking about voter ID, and it is an accusation…
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Madam President, I appreciate the conversation from my colleague. [[Page S5226]] I look forward to getting a chance to be able to work on the bill that is actually complete. He asked where I got my information from that I actually listed out on this. I got it from a ``secret sour…
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Madam President, I wish my colleague had actually got a bunch of things right, but he got a bunch of things wrong. I don't know what propaganda he was reading, from what source that wants to continue the corruption. But he said that the bill that came earlier today said you could…
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Madam President, reserving the right to object--I would like to reserve the right to object on this. My friend came with a proposal to try to ban the sale and ownership of stocks by Members of Congress. I am pretty confident of why this came up today, because earlier today, we ha…
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Madam President, the Constitution matters. And what does the Constitution say? No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law. That is pretty straightforward, and yet my colleague from Wisconsin just wanted to shred the Constitution. H…
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Madam President, reserving the right to object, I would like to make two points. First of all, the law that is at stake here that we are discussing is the Impoundment Control Act--surprisingly, very poorly written. The good Senator from Oregon said that the Government Accountabil…
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Madam President, we have heard tonight from the independent Government Accounting Office that what the President did in proposing and putting forward this line-item veto is illegal. We have heard in the words of the Republican chairman of the Appropriations Committee that this is…
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Madam President, I rise today because for the second year in a row, the President is trying to illegally steal money from the people I work for. Eight months ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed bipartisan appropriations bills, and the President signed them into law. Democrats neg…
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Madam President, I join my colleagues this evening to express my deep concerns. And I share your outrage, Senator Kaine, about the Trump administration's decision to recklessly take away funding for critical programs that hard-working Americans rely on to get ahead. The President…
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Madam President, I rise with my colleagues. I appreciate the Senator from Oregon and the UC he will seek in a few minutes about a very important bill to reclaim congressional authority over appropriations. I think both Senators Merkley and Murray have done a good job of laying ou…
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Madam President, I thank my colleague from Oregon for setting out what is going on here because, as he said, on Friday night, President Trump announced that he was stealing more money from the American people. Trump and his Budget Director, Russ Vought, call it a pocket rescissio…
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Madam President, we have a challenge--a problem--and that is the President is exercising a line-item veto, and line-item vetoes are unconstitutional because the Constitution assigns the power of the purse to Congress, not to the President of the United States. Laws are not sugges…
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Mr. President, 2 years ago, the American people elected a new Congress and a new President. The American people did so based on a promise that the President and his allies in Congress would work to bring down high costs. So now it is worth asking a simple question, one that the A…
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Mr. President, reserving the right to object. My bill is simple. It should be a really uncontroversial purpose codifying the National Fraud Enforcement Group. It has done remarkable work protecting American taxpayer dollars. And by the way, this wouldn't survive. This isn't just …
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Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I have to start by noting that President Trump and his cronies are using the White House to commit political fraud and corruption on an epic scale. This is unprecedented levels of corruption. The rot runs deep. And to allow for that m…
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Mr. President, thank you to my good friend and colleague Senator Schmitt. The grift is real, and the grift is great. I rise today to urge my colleagues to pass this vital legislation to stop the rampant fraud that we are seeing around this country. Through my previous work as Flo…
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Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Requests Mr. President, the Federal Government has become a gold mine for fraudsters. Just last week, we saw that …
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Mr. President, I will just be very brief. The fact is, that can't happen because the reality is, these lands are already being developed in my home State and across the West right now. This is an immediate threat to public lands that we have the opportunity and a requirement to a…
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Just last week, it was reported that the Trump administration intends to develop public land in several States, including Oregon, to build new data centers. Since he took office, Donald Trump and his allies have taken every opportunity--every opportunity--to chip away at what bel…
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I want to respond very briefly because everything that has just been said in objection to this bill is totally irrelevant. It is irrelevant because it is based on the misunderstanding that this bill somehow imposes censorship or content evaluation. In fact, it is not a free speec…
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Reserving right to object, if good intentions created laws--or created good laws--there would be no need for congressional debate. I have no doubt that the authors of this bill genuinely want to protect children, but the bill they have written promises to be a Pandora's box of un…
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Mr. President, I am here to talk about the Kids Online Safety Act and receive unanimous consent for its passage, but I cannot begin this conversation without remarking on the colloquy that we just heard because I so strongly welcome the powerful statements made by Senator Tillis.…
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Mr. President, I would just add--and Senator Tillis mentioned this--the Ukrainians are worn out. They have been fighting this war. Those on the frontline have been fighting this war for a long time, and you realize how much it means to them that we are there. I think the sanction…
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Mr. President, thanks again to my colleagues from Utah and Oklahoma. This graphic--by the way, the gentleman putting this graphic up is my staff--my MLA--Mike Leeman. It is his birthday today. I don't know if that is allowed, to say that. I won't sing ``Happy Birthday,'' though, …
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Well, we certainly learned that on the very frontline, Ukrainians are doing a great job of actually way outperforming the Russians on the frontline. But the thing they are not capable today of defending themselves from are the ballistic missiles and the jet- powered drones that t…
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