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4,889 Senate floor speeches with body text since January 1, 2025.
AMENDING THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 TO EXTEND THE AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time. I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. I…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 4444 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, my colleague on the other side of the aisle is now ducking the issue that I have brought to light. I am clear that I am for a short-term extension. I have said it now three or four times. But I also believe that the government, which is already required to declassi…
Read on congress.gov →AMENDING THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 TO EXTEND THE AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978
Mr. President, the majority leader states it correctly. That is my understanding as well. The point of this is to have some additional time. This is a very new period in this debate with, for example, AI driving so much of this. And you know, new tools require new rules, and we a…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 4444 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, again, let's be specific on what we are talking about here. The Senator from Oregon keeps talking about a short-term extension. I think most people with some common sense--the people sitting in our Gallery--would say: You know what; a 45-day extension is pretty sho…
Read on congress.gov →UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST--H.R. 4371
Mr. President, as I listen to our colleague, he basically says: The perfect is the enemy of the good. So the good thing about this legislation is it would protect a lot of innocent, vulnerable children, something the Biden administration turned a blind eye to during 4 years of it…
Read on congress.gov →WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
Mr. President, I rise today on behalf of the American people who are against Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran. This war has taken the lives of 13 servicemembers--hundreds more are injured, many severely. This war has cost American taxpayers upward of $25 billion and is jackin…
Read on congress.gov →AMENDING THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 TO EXTEND THE AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978
Mr. President, the Senator from Oregon has referenced a letter, and my understanding is that both the chair of the Intelligence Committee Senator Cotton and the ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Warner have agreed to this letter, and it reflects what the…
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 4444 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, so let me repeat the central business in a key area, and that is: I am prepared today to pass a short-term extension of section 702. I am doing that because I have listened to colleagues on both sides of the aisle. I don't think it is really necessary because of th…
Read on congress.gov →DIRECTING THE REMOVAL OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FROM HOSTILITIES WITHIN OR AGAINST THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN THAT HAVE NOT BEEN AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS--Motion to Discharge
Mr. President, in just a few hours, it will be 60 days since Donald Trump officially notified Congress he was dragging us into one of the most foolish foreign misadventures in American history. Pete Hegseth can't just hit the pause button on that countdown, not when American troo…
Read on congress.gov →AMENDING THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 TO EXTEND THE AUTHORITIES OF TITLE VII OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, let me pick up on where I think the majority leader wants to go as well. We have been working hard on the 702 legislation with the kind of lodestar that we want to prove that, for the first time, the government is saying that liberty …
Read on congress.gov →Unanimous Consent Request--S. 4444 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object--and I will object--first, let me just set the context here. The Senator from Oregon has always expressed hard-core ideological opposition to section 702, which a large majority of the Senate and the House, under Democratic and Republi…
Read on congress.gov →UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST--H.R. 4371
Mr. President, reserving the right to object. I think Senator Cornyn and I share a goal--actually, multiple goals--one is to adequately protect children who are crossing the border by themselves to make sure that they are in adequate, humane, and appropriate placements; but also …
Read on congress.gov →AMENDING RULE XXXVII OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE TO PROHIBIT SENATORS FROM TRADING ON PREDICTION MARKETS
Mr. President, first, I appreciate what the Senator from Ohio has done. It is a good thing that the Senate is moving swiftly to prohibit Senators and staff from playing around in prediction markets. Since this is a resolution, it is immediately going into effect for Senators. Tha…
Read on congress.gov →WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
Mr. President, I want to thank Senator Schiff for bringing another War Powers Resolution before this body. I have lost count on how many votes we have had, but we are doing this for one reason and one reason only: The Republican majority refuses to do its constitutional and statu…
Read on congress.gov →RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED TODAY
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following resolutions, which are at the desk: S. Res. 718, S. Res. 719, and S. Res. 720. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolutions en bloc. Mr. …
Read on congress.gov →MAKING A TECHNICAL CORRECTION TO AMENDING RULE XXXVII OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE TO PROHIBIT SENATORS FROM TRADING ON PREDICTION MARKETS
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding adoption of S. Res. 708, as amended, amendment No. 5442, previously agreed to, be modified with the technical correction at the desk and agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendmen…
Read on congress.gov →ARMS SALES NOTIFICATION
Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed. The provision …
Read on congress.gov →STATEMENT FROM MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the following statement from medical professionals and their names into the Record on behalf of myself and Senator Reed. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows…
Read on congress.gov →TRIBUTE TO NEW CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES: NATURALIZATION CEREMONY IN PORTLAND, MAINE
Mr. President, I speak today to recognize the powerful and inspiring remarks delivered by Judge Stacey D. Neumann of the U.S. District Court of Maine at a recent naturalization ceremony in Portland. Her words capture the profound significance of becoming an American citizen and t…
Read on congress.gov →REMEMBERING DANIEL "DAN" BICE
Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life and work of Mr. Daniel ``Dan'' Bice, a powerful force in Wisconsin journalism and politics who worked as a political reporter and columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 33 years. For Dan, no one was too powerful or off-limit…
Read on congress.gov →REMEMBERING JOANNE BLAND
Mr. President, I rise today to honor civil rights activist and icon Joanne Bland. Ms. Bland was only 11 years old when Bloody Sunday occurred in her hometown of Selma, AL, and one of the youngest people to join the historic 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma to Alabama's capital…
Read on congress.gov →TRIBUTE TO RICHARD RITTER
Mr. President, I rise today to recognize Mr. Richard Ritter, a true patriot who has dedicated more than 55 years of service to this country, first as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force and later as a civil servant and Senior Executive Service leader with the Strategic D…
Read on congress.gov →TRIBUTE TO ANDREA YOUNG
Mr. President, today I would like to recognize Andrea Young, a daughter of Georgia, upon her retirement as a transformational executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. As the daughter of civil rights icon Andrew Young and international children's advoca…
Read on congress.gov →Introductory Statement on S. 4448
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 4448 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of …
Read on congress.gov →WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
Mr. President, I rise today in strong support of Senator Schiff's War Powers Resolution to end President Trump's illegal war against Iran. Let's begin with a simple fact. We are now over 60 days into this illegal war. The war was started on February 28. A few days later, on March…
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