WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, issued the following news: * * * Cornyn to Putin: Pres. Trump, America Cannot Be Coerced WASHINGTON - Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) commended President Trump's efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempts to hinder a lasting peace agreement. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn's remarks are below, and video can be found here. "I'm grateful to President Trump for his lead more PR

FAIRFAX, Virginia, May 14 -- The George Mason University Center for History and New Media issued the following news: * * * Report from the Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History From March 19th to March 21st, 2025, the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC hosted the Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History. The conference theme, real-time history, drew on Roy Rosenzweig's call to action that historians need to directly address the metho more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: * * * McConnell Remarks at CSIS Global Security Forum on Defense Innovation Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, addressed the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Global Security Forum today in Washington, D.C. Below are the Senator's remarks as prepared for delivery: "If I told y more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: * * * Schatz: No President Should Take $400 Million Gift From A Foreign Country WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today took to the Senate floor to condemn a luxury airplane gift, valued at $400 million, that President Donald Trump announced he will receive from the government of Qatar. According to reports, Trump intends to designa more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, issued the following floor remarks on May 12, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Madam President refers to the presiding officer of the Senate at the time of the speech): * * * Madam President, America is an exceptional nation: freedom of religion, freedom of speech and of the press; private property rights; free and fair elections; the rule of law and an independent judiciary. All of these help make us exceptional, but we Americans often  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, issued the following floor remarks on May 12, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Madam President refers to the presiding officer of the Senate at the time of the speech): * * * Madam President, I cannot believe I have to say this, but a President should not take a $400 million gift from a foreign country. It doesn't matter which President or what party. It doesn't matter which foreign country. It doesn't matter if there is or is not a l more PR