Chris Van Hollen
Senator for Maryland · Democratic · United States
“Government does is use all its powers to sanction Hamas. One of the reasons some of us on the Democratic side were concerned about some of the cryptocurrency bills is because the method that Hamas uses to evade sanctions is cryptocurrency, and the bill that was brought to this floor did not close that loophole used by Hamas.”
Senate29 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. President, I rise today to call up S. Res. 852, a resolution to require the State Department to provide Congress with information on the growing violence and human rights abuses taking place in the West Bank, including against American citizens.”
Senate29 September 2026Source ↗
“How many more Americans must die in the West Bank before this administration takes serious, credible steps to secure accountability? before the U.S. Government does its job and follows through when it says its top priority is to protect American citizens overseas?”
Senate29 September 2026Source ↗
“We have seen violent Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian civilians with impunity. They are pushing Palestinians off their land, burning cars and buildings and mosques, destroying crops and water systems, and assaulting residents in their own communities. Many members of the extremist Netanyahu government have encouraged this activity.”
Senate29 September 2026Source ↗
“We visited the historic church that settlers had attempted to damage. These are not isolated incidents. According to the United Nations, last year alone, there were 1,828 settler attacks against Palestinian residents resulting in bodily injury or property damage.”
Senate29 September 2026Source ↗
“In August 2025, Khamis, who was a 40-year-old American citizen who lived in Chicago with his five children, died of smoke inhalation after violent Israeli settlers set fire to homes and cars during an attack in Silwad. No one has been held accountable.”
Senate29 September 2026Source ↗
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“They don't get to cherry-pick speech under the First Amendment and use governmental power, state power, to sanction those who disagree with their points of view. But that is exactly what they are doing in cases like those of Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil, and Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen Mahdawi was illegally snatched as he was taking his citizenship test in the State of Vermont. I want to read one of the questions that is on the U.S. citizenship test. It is important that everybody recognize what we ask those who are working to become citizens to understand. Question 6 on the citizenship test reads: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? And under it there are a number of things, but the first one on there is speech. The second one on there is assembly--speech and assembly.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Now I want to turn to another area of lawbreaking--constitutional violations being committed by the Trump administration because not only are they violating the due process clause of the Constitution in the Abrego Garcia case and others, but they are also tearing up the First Amendment and trampling over free speech rights of individuals in America, especially students on college and university campuses but many others as well. The Trump administration and Secretary Rubio apparently think the First Amendment is like an a la carte menu. In other words, they seem to believe that the U.S. government can punish those who engage in speech that they don't like. That is not how it works.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“I will continue to fight to defend the Constitution and due process rights of all who live in America. That was my letter to President Trump. I haven't heard anything back from them, and they continue to violate the Supreme Court orders. You know, colleagues, Members can look the other way but cannot deny the fact that this is happening as we speak today. I would urge every Senator to recognize the threat to everybody's rights under the Constitution.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has [already] rid itself of custody there is nothing [else] that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear. I should point out that Judge Wilkinson was a Reagan administration appointee and this was a unanimous opinion of the three-court panel. I went on in my letter to President Trump to say: The Fourth Circuit got to the heart of the case.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“More than two decades ago [I pointed out to him] I helped establish a regional anti-gang task force to combat MS-13 and other gang violence in the Maryland-Virginia-D.C. area. We have made substantial progress in this fight, but there is more that can be done. But that is not what you and your Administration are doing. You are engaged in gross violations of the Constitution and due process rights. I then, in this letter, cite Judge Harvie Wilkinson, who wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit the following. I am going to quote him, and I have this in my letter to President Trump: It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Apparently, no one informed the President of this, or he just decided to pretend he didn't know. In this interview, he said: He had MS-13 on his knuckles, tattooed. The reporter said: That was photoshopped. And Trump's response was to the reporter: Terry, they are giving you a big break of a lifetime. I picked you, but you are not being very nice. Well, my point here, again, is whatever evidence there may be, the proper form to submit it is in the courts of the United States. And at least today, judges in those cases have made clear that the declaration has not relied on such evidence. I went on in my letter to President Trump to say this: It is also dangerous for you to suggest that we cannot fight gang violence without trampling over constitutional rights.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Yet the federal district court judge in this case said your Administration had presented the court with ``no evidence linking Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or to any terrorist activity.'' So your Administration should put up or shut up in court. I am not vouching for the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, I am vouching for his rights. I am going to take a little departure here. I don't know if my colleagues witnessed the interview that President Trump had with an ABC reporter, Mr. Moran, yesterday, but it is all over social media because it turned out that, you know, President Trump had taken a picture of what was Abrego Garcia's fingers, and he had superimposed--or someone in the administration put an ``MS-13,'' written that on. That had been photoshopped or otherwise falsely there.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“My conversation with Vice President Ulloa shows that your Administration's claim that El Salvador is exercising its ``sovereign'' decision to continue to hold Mr. Abrego Garcia is a farce. The Government of El Salvador is imprisoning him because your Administration is paying them to do so and they claim to be contractually obligated. Obviously, your Administration could say El Salvador was no longer contractually obligated to imprison Mr. Abrego Garcia. Then El Salvador can release him, and Attorney General Bondi can, as promised, send the plane. I went on to write to President Trump that: It is outrageous that Mr. Abrego Garcia and his family have been forced to suffer through this trauma because your Administration has, to date, refused to follow the requirements of the Constitution and the orders of the federal courts.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in a plane, and Attorney General Bondi has said the United States could send a plane to pick him up. And the U.S. government can certainly provide him with the papers necessary to return.'' I went on in my letter to President Trump to say this: My conversation with [the] Vice President. . . . clearly demonstrates that the Government of El Salvador has no independent legal basis for imprisoning Mr. Abrego Garcia; that, as they readily concede, the only reason for keeping him in prison is that they entered into an agreement with your Administration to be paid by the United States. This also reveals that your Administration could easily facilitate his release by letting El Salvador know that--given his wrongful detention--they are not contractually bound to continue imprisoning Mr. Abrego Garcia.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“We don't have it.'' So I continued to report on this conversation in my letter to President Trump, and I said: I repeatedly pointed out that neither I nor anyone else was asking El Salvador to ``smuggle'' Mr. Abrego Garcia back into the United States. That argument is, of course, a red herring. I repeatedly pointed out that Attorney General Bondi had said, when President Bukele was in the Oval Office with you-- Referring to the President of the United States-- that the U.S. would send a plane to pick up Mr. Abrego Garcia. So, I was not asking the Government of El Salvador to ``smuggle'' him into the United States, only to release him from prison. And I pointed out to President Trump that ``Your Administration illegally took Mr.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“And that's it.'' When I asked the Vice President why El Salvador cannot release Mr. Abrego Garcia from prison when the U.S. government conceded in court that he was wrongfully abducted--and whether he is being charged under El Salvador's law--he responded, ``What is your recommendation to El Salvador's government? We can take him to the airport and ask an airline to take him to the States? Are you saying the airline would take a person without a passport? What kind of visa should we carry?'' He went on to say--this is the Vice President of El Salvador: President Bukele said we cannot smuggle a person to the United States. Because if we send a person without a visa, tourist visa, working visa, student visa, what kind of reason can we call to get legally into the United States?'' Regarding his papers, he asked, ``Who will provide that?”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“whether El Salvador had any evidence that Mr. Abrego Garcia had committed a crime, his response was, ``how can I have it?'' He said the Government of El Salvador does not ``qualify those persons who are there, we just take them.'' I asked if El Salvador is imprisoning Mr. Abrego Garcia simply because the United States is paying to keep him and others there. His response was, ``exactly, that's it.'' He also said, ``I mean, if the person that you send is not a criminal, is not whatever, I mean it is up to you, that's what I'm saying. I don't want to express any opinion . . . I think it is up to you . . . The ball is in your court.'' And the Vice President of El Salvador ``made it clear that they did not review the file of Mr. Abrego Garcia.'' He said, ``we have a deal with the U.S. government. They send people. We host them. They pay.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“We have not expressed, we cannot express any opinion on that case, because it is up to you.'' Again, this is what the Vice President of El Salvador told me and what I reported to President Trump in this letter. I went on in my letter to President Trump to say: All of this makes crystal clear that, even though your Administration's lawyers admitted in federal court that Mr. Abrego Garcia was wrongfully detained in Maryland and sent to prison in El Salvador and despite the Supreme Court's order to ``facilitate'' his return, your Administration has not lifted a finger to comply with the court order. As [the] Vice President. . . . indicated, ``the ball is in your court.'' When I asked-- And I am continuing to report this to the President of the United States. When I asked [the] Vice President. . . .”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“and usually we do not express any opinion on domestic affairs.'' He went on to say-- I quoted him again-- I mean, the ball is in your court. Meaning the ball is in America's court, and he used that expression multiple times during our conversation. I went on to tell President Trump that the Vice President of El Salvador: . . . made clear that ``once the case will be resolved definitely and there will be clear instruction regarding this case . . . El Salvador's government will apply [our] principles . . . of course we will act accordingly.'' He indicated that, ``at this current moment we cannot take any actions because the case is still in the United States' situation.'' He reinforced this point throughout our conversation, saying the ``bottom line is this is an issue that has to be solved in the United States.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Abrego Garcia's return to the United States and revealed that the Government of El Salvador is holding him solely at the request of your Administration and, specifically, because you are paying them to imprison him. While I had expected a private meeting with Vice President Ulloa, when I arrived at his office there were several cameras rolling-- I think they were probably his own private cameras. I don't know, but they were rolling to record the conversation. [So] I agreed to have our conversation on the record. And then I write: [Mr. President,] I want to report some important details of our [conversation]. Vice President . . . told me that, ``El Salvador is not able to take any action regarding the case because the case is in the U.S.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Abrego Garcia's constitutional and due process rights--and when you deny the due process rights of one person, you threaten them for everyone in America. The American public knows this. Recent polling shows that a majority of Americans reject your trampling over constitutional rights in this case. I went on to write this: During my visit to El Salvador, I had the opportunity to meet with [the] Vice President. . . . My conversation with him revealed the extent to which you and your Administration are violating the orders of the federal courts and the Constitution of the United States. Our discussion-- Again, referring to my discussion with the Vice President of El Salvador-- showed that your Administration is doing nothing to comply with and implement the Supreme Court order to ``facilitate'' Mr.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Here is what I wrote in that letter: Dear President Trump, I read with great interest your interview with Time Magazine regarding the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision ordering you and your Administration to ``facilitate'' the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who your lawyers admitted in federal court was wrongfully seized and deported to prison in El Salvador. You conceded in that interview-- This is the interview he had with Time magazine just a short while ago. You conceded in that interview that you have not asked President Bukele-- That is the President of El Salvador-- to return him. You also said, regarding this case, that you ``don't make that decision'' because your lawyers do. Your comments and the actions of your Administration clearly demonstrate your failure to comply with court orders as you continue to violate Mr.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“He was denied the opportunity to make that phone call. He was then shipped to the State of Texas. From there, his feet were shackled. He was handcuffed. He was put in a plane where he couldn't see out the windows, and he didn't know where he was going, and he landed in El Salvador and was taken to one of the most notorious prisons in our hemisphere, a place reserved for the worst of the worst, for terrorists. Now here is the thing: There was a standing court order not to deport him to El Salvador because doing so could put his life in jeopardy from gangs. Indeed, the Trump administration admitted in Federal court that Abrego Garcia was wrongfully seized and shipped to this prison in El Salvador. But instead of fixing the problem they admitted to in court, what did they do? They punished the lawyer who told the truth in court.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“As I have repeatedly said, this case is not about one man alone. It is about all of us. I am not vouching for Mr. Abrego Garcia, but I am vouching for his constitutional right to due process--because, if Donald Trump can ignore court orders and trample over the rights of one man, he threatens the rights of everyone who lives in the United States of America. Mr. Abrego Garcia had legal status in the United States. He lived in Maryland with his family. He had a work permit. He was an apprentice with the sheet metal workers, SMART Local 100, where he worked full- time to help support his family. He was driving in his car with his 5- year-old autistic son when he was pulled over by Federal agents. He was taken to some facility in Baltimore where he asked to make a phone call to let folks know what was happening.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“I want to cover four categories: his violations of constitutional due process rights; his violation of First Amendment rights; his illegal withholding and impoundment and freezing of public funds that benefit communities all over America; and fourth, exceeding his authorities, claiming emergency powers that he doesn't have in the area of tariffs, making sham claims to justify his tariff chaos that is sabotaging our economy as we speak. I want to start with Trump's violations of the constitutional right of due process--a bedrock American principle. As we speak, President Trump is violating the due process of many, many individuals, including the rights of a man by the name of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was snatched off the streets of Maryland and illegally shipped to one of the most notorious prisons in Latin America, called CECOT.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“The only people who don't seem to get it are some of our Republican colleagues here in the Congress who apparently live in constant fear of being on the wrong end of a tweet from Donald Trump or Elon Musk and want to look the other way in the face of this massive lawbreaking and ripping up of the Constitution. So I want to take a little inventory, just a small sampling of the actions of this lawless President.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“He is violating the First Amendment by cracking down on students at colleges and universities for their exercise of free speech and right to assemble and also violating another vital constitutional provision: the constitutional right to due process for those who live in America. It is a staggering amount of lawbreaking in just 100 days. That is why all of us should fight back--in the courts, in this Congress, and in communities all over America. We know that the American people don't like what they are seeing, what they are experiencing. They are rising up in communities all over America to voice their disapproval with President Trump's performance. They are giving him a big fat F for the first 100 days--total, miserable, failure.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Over 200 lawsuits have been filed in Federal courts around the country because we are watching this President break laws on every front, on everything from his illegal freezing and impoundments of taxpayer funds for important public programs that benefit communities all over the country, to his illegal firing of patriotic Federal employees, including many veterans who provide critical public services, to letting Elon Musk loose on Federal Government programs with a chain saw--not to make government more efficient but to rig government for the already rich and powerful like Elon Musk at the expense of everybody else. President Trump has also been abusing his authority to create tariff chaos that has sent consumer confidence plummeting, badly damaging our economy.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“He has thrown the Ukrainian people under the bus, and in Gaza, the hostages have not been released, and we are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe. Over the last 100 days, Donald Trump has embarked on a lawbreaking spree that has torn up our Constitution, torn apart our government, and torn down our economy.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, yesterday marked 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn in as President. It happened right down that hallway. He promised a golden age for America. He has not delivered that golden age. In fact, in that 100 days, all he has delivered is chaos and destruction. Consumer confidence is plummeting, and today we learned that our economy is shrinking. This is all a totally self-inflicted, Trump- inflicted wound on America and American families. That is here at home. On the world stage, Candidate Trump promised to be the great peacemaker, to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza on day one, but he has nothing to show for that other than distrust from our allies and smiles from our adversaries.”
Senate30 April 2025Source ↗
“So I want to say thank you to the Senator from Virginia, Senator Kaine, for blowing the whistle on this phony action taken at our friend Canada, all as a pretext to increase tariffs, which amounts to a huge sales tax on the American people in service of a tax cut for the very wealthy. I thank my colleagues. I yield the floor.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“I heard the chairman of the Finance Committee speaking a little bit earlier about how the proceeds from collecting tariffs might be counted and used to offset tax cuts which are going to be aimed at the very, very wealthy in this country--tax relief for the wealthy paid for in part by a national sales tax on all the other Americans in the country; paid for, as we have heard, by going after Medicaid. So whether it is a national sales tax or other efforts aimed at the American people that will hurt the American people and hit them in the pocketbooks, that is all done in service to pay for tax cuts for the very wealthy, people like Elon Musk.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“Of course, we should be addressing the fentanyl crisis in the United States of America, and this Congress has done a lot. It needs to do a lot more. But in the fight against fentanyl, the Canadian people are, No. 1, our allies, and No. 2, they are not the ones who are causing the problem. Only 0.2 percent of fentanyl trafficked into the United States comes across the U.S.-Canadian border, and Canada is right now putting together a $1.3 billion plan to strengthen that border security and stop it altogether. So this is a fake emergency declared by the President, putting on these massive tariffs. I will close with why, and we are going to find out more about this in the next couple of days.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“Finally, I do want to talk to the other part of this issue--and I am not going to belabor the point because others have spoken to it eloquently, especially the chief sponsor of this effort, Senator Kaine--which is that President Trump is abusing the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to apply these tariffs to Canada. That is a law aimed at protecting our national security. It is a law that we have used against adversaries like Iran, Sudan, North Korea, and Russia. But here, President Trump is using it to target our longtime friend, our longtime ally Canada. He has declared a phony ``emergency'' on our northern border to target our friends there. He claims that these punitive tariffs will somehow address the fentanyl crisis.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“So buying a house, buying a car--these are all things that families save toward. So what this comes down to is a tax on the American dream. These increased costs may not mean a lot to the billionaires in the President's Cabinet. After all, we had the Secretary of Commerce say recently with respect to Social Security benefits that, hey, if Americans didn't get their Social Security benefits one week, nobody would notice except the fraudsters. That is the kind of attitude we have from this administration when it comes to increasing prices that we will all experience as a result of these tariffs. They think people won't notice, but they will.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“That is a whopping sales tax. The National Association of Home Builders says that tariffs will make new homes cost up to 10,000 more, at a time when we are already facing an affordable housing crisis. North America's Building Trades Unions sent a letter opposing these tariffs, saying: We are seeing construction projects slowing down, infrastructure investments being delayed, and economic momentum weakening--resulting in smaller paychecks, fewer jobs, and shrinking opportunities for skilled building trades and workers. A researcher at Cornell University said that a new car could cost up to $20,000 more because of all the back-and-forth across borders and all the additional tariffs that are applied each time a border is crossed. U.S.-made cars are estimated to increase by up to $3,000.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“Look, we all recognize that tariffs can be an effective tool when they are used in a targeted way with strategic industries, but that is not what Donald Trump is doing. This is not strategic. He is starting an all-out trade war and apparently does not care about the consequences. It is leading already to chaos in the markets. I am not going to go through all those because Senator Warner, Senator Kaine, and others have spoken to that. But at the end of the day, the direction we are heading could well take us into a recession. As Senator Warner mentioned, some of the President's people have said this is going to be $6 trillion worth of tariffs over the next 10 years--by far the largest effective tax hike in American history. Economists estimate that it will cost the typical American household up to $4,200 more per year.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“We saw a little miniversion of this during the first Trump administration. Back then, Donald Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products, and China responded with retaliatory tariffs on many American farm exports like wheat, soybeans, and pork. What happened? Well, American farmers sold less of those products overseas. They got more expensive. Do you know how we know this was all a big fake-out? When American farmers were not able to sell their products into China's market because of China's retaliatory tariffs, we bailed them out--we the American taxpayer. We spent $23 billion in taxpayer money from the American people to pay American farmers not to be more productive--they were productive--but because China raised tariffs on their products in retaliation for Donald Trump raising tariffs on theirs.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“It is a national sales tax day because that will be the result of the President's action--a sales tax on the American people, a national sales tax, because today the President announced he was levying massive, across-the-board tariffs on countless goods, making big promises but at the end of the day betraying the American people, who are going to be hit hard by rising prices. We have heard the President make a lot of promises about what these tariffs will do. It is like a miracle cure. They are going to revive American manufacturing. They are going to stop fentanyl. They are going to balance our budget. They are going to make all of us rich, and all of those other countries are going to pay for it. The problem is, none of that is true. Other countries don't pay these tariffs; we do.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I want to start by thanking our colleagues from Virginia, starting with Senator Kaine, who brought us to this debate here on the Senate floor today on a very important question, and to my other colleague from across the Potomac River from Maryland, Senator Warner. We sometimes disagree on various issues. On this, we have solidarity across the Potomac River. That unity comes from a very simple result, which is that we are here to sound the alarm about the trade war that Donald Trump just unleashed today. He calls it ``Liberation Day.'' If he had made this announcement yesterday, on April Fools' Day, people would have thought it was an April Fools' joke. But this is no joke, and it is not liberation day.”
Senate2 April 2025Source ↗
“I urge my colleagues to vote no. I yield the floor.”
Senate26 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to a dedicated public servant and Marylander Mark Sweeney, Principal Deputy Librarian of Congress. With almost 40 years of unwavering service to the Library of Congress, Mr. Sweeney has faithfully served our Nation by preserving our knowledge, history, and culture. Throughout his distinguished career, Mr. Sweeney served the Library of Congress in multiple positions. He began his career at the Library in 1985 as a Library technician.”
Senate24 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I voted today against final passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act because of the unintended consequences that could have been corrected by amendments that were blocked by the majority. Our Nation and my State of Maryland are experiencing a crisis with synthetic opioids like fentanyl and related drugs, and I strongly support action to combat drug trafficking and prevent overdoses.”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“I am pleased to be joined by my colleagues from Virginia and Maryland--Senator Warner, Senator Alsobrooks, and Senator Kaine. We urge its adoption unanimously.”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“I ask for the yeas and nays.”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“Finally, they also have essentially tried to clear the way--clear the way--for tax cuts for very wealthy Americans. And I will end with this. They have also lied about their savings.”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, this amendment shuts down the illegal Elon Musk operation, which has nothing to do with government efficiency and everything to do with rigging the government for people like Elon Musk and powerful special interests. That is why they started by firing all the independent inspectors general in the U.S. Government, which just opens the door to more corruption. And they have lied and lied to the American people. They illegally fired over 200,000 patriotic Federal employees, including 6,000 veterans, and added insult to injury by lying that they were fired for poor performance. That was untrue, and this is why judges are ordering the Trump administration to return them to their jobs. They gained access illegally to highly sensitive personal information on Americans, and just today we learned--”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, this amendment shuts down the illegal Musk DOGE operation, which has nothing to do with government efficiency and everything--could I have order, please, Mr. President”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, together with my Maryland and Virginia Senate colleagues, I call up my amendment No. 1272 and ask that it be reported by number.”
Senate14 March 2025Source ↗
“Madam President, I voted today to oppose cloture to end debate on the HALT Fentanyl Act. Our Nation and my State of Maryland are experiencing a crisis with synthetic opioids like fentanyl and related drugs, and I strongly support action to combat drug trafficking and prevent overdoses.”
Senate13 March 2025Source ↗
“You don't go into a negotiation by giving up the issue of American participation and security guarantees, however that might look. You don't go into a negotiation by unilaterally giving up on territorial concessions. This is why it is important, in my view, for the Senate simply to reconfirm the truths that we have already stated in the past. This seems to be a simple one--that war crimes have been committed by the Russian Army and that they have committed crimes against humanity. That is all this resolution says. I hope that we can, at some point, come back and revisit this because it is going to be very important to achieve not just a peace but a just peace.”
Senate5 March 2025Source ↗
“President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 111, which was submitted earlier today; further, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.”
Senate5 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, this morning I attended the funeral of former Maryland Congresswoman Beverly Byron, an extraordinary public servant who represented the people of western Maryland and expanded the rights of women in the military as the first woman to chair a subcommittee on the Armed Services Committee and author of the Byron amendment that allowed women to fly combat missions. She was a mentor and friend, and I was grateful to pay my respects to her this morning among her many friends and family. Due to this conflict, I missed rollcall vote No.”
Senate25 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life and service of the late Congresswoman Beverly Byron. For over a decade, Congresswoman Byron served western Maryland. She fought to advance the interests of her constituents and was a strong advocate for our national security. Congresswoman Byron has left a lasting legacy for the people of Maryland and our Nation. When Congresswoman Byron was elected in 1978, she was one of only 16 women elected to the House of Representatives that year.”
Senate24 February 2025Source ↗
“So colleagues, let's not abandon those kids in order to provide tax cuts for Elon Musk and very rich people. I urge the adoption of our amendment.”
Senate20 February 2025Source ↗