This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. President, Claims · 53 wordswell, Donald Trump is asleep at the wheel when it comes to reining in unchecked AI. Right after news came out over the weekend about rogue AI agents infiltrating government websites in the United States, Australia, 1and at the U.N., do you know what Trump told FOX News? ``I don’t worry about it.’’2 Positioning · 7 wordsWell, he is about the only one.Positioning Claims · 40 wordsTrump doesn’t worry about rogue AI, but the American people certainly do, so do cyber security experts and even many of the people who are building this technology. Everybody who knows anything about it worries about rogue AI--not Donald Trump. Positioning · 10 wordsHe keeps his head in the sand like an ostrich.Positioning Claims · 22 wordsHe doesn’t pay any attention to the facts and just says whatever pops into his head, no matter how harmful it is. The ask · 30 wordsWhen Trump meets with various AI industry leaders at the White House today, he ought to stop resisting the growing consensus that we need real guardrails to mitigate AI’s risk.3 Reasoning · 39 wordsTrump’s meeting at the White House will be a flop, a failure, an utter failure if they don’t propose and start talking about and start to come to an agreement about some real guardrails that need to be done. The ask · 18 wordsAnd, of course, he should consult with those of us in Congress who believe we need stronger guardrails.No reason given Reasoning · 24 wordsDismissing the potential dangers of AI as a hoax, as Trump has done over and over and over again, won’t protect the American people. Claims · 34 wordsThe Senate GOP’s response to AI risk has been almost as meek as Trump’s. Americans are demanding real guardrails on AI and data centers, but all the Republicans offer is a toothless messaging bill. Positioning · 5 wordsThe bill is a fraud.Positioning Procedure · 15 wordsI can sum up the shortcomings of the Republican data center bill with one word: ProcedureClaims · 5 wordsoptional. The bill is optional. Aside · 5 wordsAmerica, do you hear that?Aside Reasoning · 9 wordsHere, we need some real action on data centers. Positioning · 11 wordsAnd what does the Republican Senator from Ohio come up with?Positioning Claims · 12 wordsSomething that is optional. It is up to the companies to decide. Reasoning · 9 wordsWell, they are the ones that need the guardrails: Claims · 23 wordsoptional--optional requirements in his bill on data center development, optional standards for safety against catastrophic risks, optional enforcement to protect the American people. Reasoning · 10 wordsA guardrail that is optional isn’t a guardrail at all.No reason given Positioning · 27 wordsAt a time when Americans are calling out for real guardrails on AI, Senate Republicans are trying to secure an ineffectual participation trophy before they skip town.Positioning The ask · 29 wordsInstead of trying to score cheap political points with hollow proposals, Senate Republicans need to work with us to take meaningful action that will actually contain these existential risks. Claims · 19 wordsThey are not doing that, and the American people are in real danger because of their failure to act. Mr. President, Positioning · 24 wordson stock trading and voter ID, Senate Republicans continue to show the country they care more about playing partisan political games than stopping corruption.Positioning Claims · 15 wordsThe Senate GOP has bucked a longstanding bipartisan effort to ban stock trading in Congress, Reasoning · 6 wordswhich is what Congress should do. Claims · 35 wordsLast July--July--the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced a strong, commonsense, bipartisan bill to ban congressional stock trading, 4but Senate Republicans abandoned this effort. Too many of their Members didn’t want to do it. Reasoning · 22 wordsIf Senate Republicans truly cared about banning stock trading in Congress, they wouldn’t have let the House Republicans water down the ban. Claims · 50 wordsThe bill Republicans are offering today is Swiss cheese legislating, creating loophole after loophole after loophole, and it is a step backward to solving this critical problem. The bill even lets Members continue to own and sell stocks.5 The Republican bill even lets Members continue to own and sell stocks. Positioning · 5 wordsThis is the Republican MO.Positioning Claims · 12 wordsThe public is mad about a problem. The public wants something done. Positioning · 31 wordsAnd what they do is put in a bill that does virtually nothing because they want to try to assuage the public but not solve the problem because it affects them.Positioning Claims · 41 wordsThe Republican bill also explicitly allows Members to trade stocks in privately held companies to profit off their insider knowledge.6 So the bill makes things worse than present law because it would simply hide insider trading. It would not stop it. The ask · 22 wordsAnd if Senate Republicans cared about reining in stock trading, they would advance a bill that prohibits the President from trading stocks. Claims · 39 wordsWe know that Trump has traded more stocks than all of Congress combined, 7but this bill does no such thing. The worst part of this bill is that Republicans know it will never pass. They designed it that way. Positioning · 8 wordsThey don’t want this bill to become law.Positioning Claims · 13 wordsSo they put a poison pill in that they knew would tank it. Positioning · 7 wordsIt is really trickery. It is skulduggery.Positioning Reasoning · 24 wordsIf Republican Senators really cared about stopping stock trading by Members, they wouldn’t have loaded it up with a poison pill voter ID bill, 8Claims · 66 wordswhich Senate Democrats have defeated already twice. Republicans know that no one in their right mind would ever go along with the draconian voting restrictions that they attach to their stock trading bill. The voting restriction provisions in this bill are more severe than any law in any State--do you hear that?--more severe than any law in any State.9 They are designed to kill the bill. Positioning · 31 wordsSo this bill is just another desperate Republican attempt to pretend they are fighting corruption, when all they really want is to score political points before they head home to campaign.Positioning Mr. President, Claims · 58 wordson Trump propaganda, Donald Trump continues to cram his taxpayer-funded propaganda down the throats of the American people. In less than a single week, Trump has aired three campaign ads, costing at least $1.5 million, all paid for by--guess who--the American taxpayer.10 Trump is getting you, American taxpayer, to use your dollars to pay for his political ads. Positioning · 17 wordsHave you ever heard anything so egregious in terms of how our system is supposed to work?Positioning The ask · 54 wordsI am calling on the White House to explain this great, blatantly corrupt, and egregious abuse of taxpayer dollars immediately. The Trump administration has a lot of questions it needs to answer: Who is responsible for these ads? Which Agency? Where were the funds diverted to pay for Trump’s propaganda? Was Trump involved personally? Claims · 38 wordsThere has already been some reporting from anonymous sources that Trump was personally involved in pushing these campaign ads on the taxpayers’ dime. Let’s be clear, these ads were anything but public service announcements. They were pure propaganda. Positioning · 25 wordsAfter fawning over foreign authoritarians like Putin and Kim Jong Un for so long, Trump must have gotten jealous of their control over state TV.Motive imputed The ask · 46 wordsTrump needs to answer for this corruption and for all of his other efforts to rob the American people to fund his extravagant vanity projects. It is time for Republicans to either call the President out for this corruption or to call it quits in November.False choice Mr. President, Claims · 173 wordsfinally, on the Affordable Care Act CRA, well, today Senate Democrats will force consideration of a resolution to stop Trump from further sabotaging the ACA.11 Trump’s recent rule terminates coverage for 2 million Americans.12 It jacks up healthcare costs for millions more and gives big insurers carte blanche to force the American people to pay more for less. As if Americans weren’t drowning enough in Trump’s failed economy, this callous rule comes on the heels of Trump and Republicans ransacking over $1 trillion--$1 trillion--from the healthcare system, all to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.13No reason given Now rural hospitals are shuttering, millions are losing lifesaving coverage, and tens of millions of working Americans are watching their premiums double, triple, even quadruple.14 For years, Trump has tried to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with no idea of what replacement will look like whatsoever. As Trump’s economy bleeds the American people dry, Trump isn’t trying to lower costs but, rather, kill the Affordable Care Act with a death by a thousand cuts. The ask · 38 wordsSo my Republican colleagues ought to join us on this resolution to protect the care their constituents rely on or they will continue to own every lost healthcare policy, every closed hospital, and every skyrocketing premium that follows. Procedure · 13 wordsI yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Graham). The Senator from Virginia.Procedure
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