Tommy Tuberville

“Being transgender is a mental illness, not something real. Our society must stop supporting it. Doctors who give people hormones or surgery to change their sex should lose their licenses and go to prison. We need to reopen mental institutions and get these people psychiatric help instead. If we do not stop this, more violent attacks will happen across the country.”

“Mr. President, I come to the floor today to talk about the rise in violence coming from people whom the left refers to as ``transgender.’’ I have come to the floor many times in the last 6 years to talk about the issue of men competing in women’s sports. While this is a very serious issue and one that I have fought hard against every day since I have been in the Senate, I think it is time we have a broader conversation about the serious gender confusion-mental illness that is taking over this country. I am not going to use the left’s preferred terminology of ``transgender’’ because it implies that it is possible for a person to change their God-given sex, which it is not. Here is the truth: From the beginning of time of humans on this Earth, there have been two genders--male and female. So I will call these people what they are--gender-confused. Unfortunately, this gender-confused mental illness is on the rise in our society today, and it is very, very concerning. You know, for decades, the radical left--Democrat socialists--have ignored science and brainwashed our young people into believing that you can change your gender by changing your clothes; by getting on some hormone-altering medications; or, God forbid, by undergoing some crazy surgery. You know it is ironic that the same people who worshipped Anthony Fauci and lived by the motto of ``follow the science’’ during the COVID-19 epidemic are the same ones today who are now ignoring the science when it comes to the horrific, life-altering consequences of hormone therapy and so-called gender-affirming care on young kids. These mentally ill, woke liberals think that if you were born a man, you can go under the knife and be magically transformed into a woman; and if you were born a woman, you can somehow be turned into a man. You know, these people will look you straight in the face--and they have since I have been here--and tell you that men can have babies. It is pure insanity what is going on in this country. I heard from one of the members of my staff recently who is pregnant, and she was asked by her OB/GYN what her gender is. Have we lost our mind? Obviously, if you are pregnant, you are a woman. But this is where the woke mind virus has taken our society. It hasn’t always been this way. For thousands of years, society accepted that there were two genders and you can’t magically switch between the two. But over the past several decades, the Democrat socialists have been orchestrating a plan--a plan--to destroy this country by slowly chipping away at Christian values that have made this country great. I want to be clear about this gender confusion. It is not normal. It is a cry for help, and our society needs to stop affirming people who are suffering from this mental illness. You know, for years, the gender-confused have been told that they will finally be happy if they get treatment that will help them transition to the opposite sex. For years, our healthcare system has taken advantage of their mental illness, getting people to pay tens of thousands of dollars for expensive medications and irreversible surgeries, all while lying about the negative side effects sex change surgeries and medications have on their patients’ physical and mental health forever--not just short time, but forever. For example, doctors often tell young people who are gender confused about the fact that these life-altering procedures leave them sterile and unable to experience any form of intimacy in the long term. They fail to tell them that. And in some cases, doctors don’t even tell parents that their underage kid is going and undergoing these dangerous procedures, and they go behind the parents’ backs. How crazy is that? It is the highest form of medical malpractice. Every single one of these doctors should have their medical licenses revoked and should spend the rest of their lives in prison. Not to mention the fact that, many times, gender-confused people go through these surgeries and hormonal treatments and end up, in the long run, they regret it. So I have heard from young women like Chloe Cole who was gender confused in her teenage years and underwent a double mastectomy at age 15, only to be filled with regret for years later after she got help and came to some of her senses about who she really was. But she will have to deal with this physical consequence of her actions at age 15 for the rest of her life. It is heartbreaking. It is so tragic that we are normalizing child sex change mutilation; it is tragic. So here in DC, it is common to see parents plagued with the woke mind virus forcing their young children to transition into the opposite sex. These kids are so young and unaware that they don’t understand what is happening, so the long-term consequence of their actions are horrific. This is child abuse and unacceptable. We are doing no favors to anybody by tiptoeing through this issue, and that is the reason I am here today. It is past time that we have national conversations about this serious mental health crisis that is causing this widespread gender confusion. In 2024, it was found that more than 300,000 teenagers ages 13 to 17 struggled with their gender confusion--300,000. Gender-confused people have one of the highest suicide rates among mental illness--the highest. Data shows that roughly 61 percent of gender-confused students have thought about suicide; 30 percent have attempted suicide. That is significantly higher than the general population. Gender confusion is an extremely serious mental problem that our society better start addressing. Unfortunately, these gender-confused individuals aren’t just harming themselves, they are also turning into violent people and hurting other people. In 2022, a study found that youth who identify as gender confused are at the highest risk of becoming violently radicalized. You don’t have to look long to see disturbing examples across our country. A recent case that comes to mind is the alleged assassin of my friend Charlie Kirk. His name is Tyler Robinson. The investigation into Tyler Robinson revealed that he was living with a man, his lover, who is gender confused and was going by the pronounces of ``her’’ or ``she.’’ Tyler himself was involved in transgender furry culture--furry culture, a bizarre subset of transgenderism where people are sexually attracted and frequently dressed up as animals. It is no wonder this lunatic went after Charlie Kirk. Charlie spent his career going from college campus to college campus trying to reach students who were indoctrinated by radical-left ideology with the truth. Charlie often spoke about his faith and advocated for traditional marriage and a growing family, while denouncing the woke mind virus, specifically the idea that you can change your gender. It was common for Charlie to oppose gender confusion during these debates, but he did it in a respectable way. And I recently saw a video of Charlie Kirk interacting with a gender-confused person during one of his campus tours. The person who was a female told Charlie she is a transgender male and asked Charlie: I need some advice. I need some advice on this subject. I am sure she was expecting a very different response than what she got. Charlie looked at this young woman and said: I encourage you to work on what is going on in your brain. My prayer for you is that I want you to feel comfortable in a way that you were born. I think that, with the right team and the right people, you don’t have to wage war on your own body. You can learn to love yourself and your body. His response was so filled with compassion for this young woman that everybody was moved to tears. Charlie was exactly right. We don’t need to enable these people who are clearly struggling with gender confusion, but we need to encourage--we need to encourage them--to get help for what is clearly a very serious mental health problem. He never became violent toward college students--Charlie didn’t--who disagreed with him, and he never told them that they were worthless for what they believed. He sympathized with them. His goal was simply to have a debate with these people hoping the truth would be revealed to them. And yet a gender-confused person assassinated him for what he believed. In fact, the bullets found on the scene that had DNA evidence matching Tyler Robinson had various engravings on them that are associated with the transgender culture. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, gender-confused people celebrated--celebrated--his death. Now, what would cause people to celebrate the death of a father, a husband, and beloved public figure who positively impacted the lives of millions of people? Two words: mental illness. That is not the only story of a gender-confused person committing violence against others. Thomas Crooks, the lunatic who shot President Trump in Butler, PA, in July of 2024 was also involved in online transgender furry culture, and, apparently, they used ``they’’ and ``them’’ pronouns. While there are still a lot of questions surrounding what happened that day in Butler, we do know that this young man seemed to be at least somewhat involved in the gender-confused cult. In 2023, a gender-confused shooter walked into a Christian school in Nashville, TN, killing three 9-year-olds and three adults in a Christian school. This person, a woman, identified as a man and wrote in her diary that this female gender role makes me not want to exist. The level of mental anguish she was going through apparently led her to take her anger out on innocent kids. In 2019, a different gender-confused high school student walked into his high school and killed a fellow student and injured eight others. His reason for committing this heinous act was because no one was willing to pretend with him that he was a woman. They refused to do it. He was, in fact, a man. And earlier this year, a gender-confused father opened fire at his family during a high school hockey game. This gender-confused man killed his wife and his son and then took his own life. Reports indicate that this man had prior family disputes over his insistence that he was a woman and not a man. Like any normal family, they rejected the notion that he could magically and unscientifically turn himself into a woman. Because his family told the truth, he decided to kill them and himself. Additionally, a video game was created a few years ago that features a gender-confused hero who shoots people, including priests, who refuse to go along with the gender-confused mental illness. The video game allows people to ``unleash pent-up fury upon gender-critical tyrants with an arsenal of deadly weapons.’’ This is absolutely sickening. It is clear that this gender confusion is a mental illness plaguing our society, and there is significant overlap between people who are gender confused and the furry community. Research shows that 25 percent of the furries are gender confused. And it is more evidence of our society going to heck in a handbasket when we have stuff like this going on. What is more concerning is that this mentally unwell furry community that touts the fact that many--listen to this--that many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us. It is terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it is possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can’t make this up. It is in the best interest of our country to bring back mental institutions as a normal part of our society instead of sweeping it under the rug. Otherwise, we are just sitting ducks until the next gender-confused person decides to show up at our churches, or our schools, and start committing acts of violence. It is coming. So why is the Democrat socialist party elevating these people who are clearly mentally deranged? Why is that happening? You know, Joe Biden had multiple gender-confused people working in high-profile jobs in his administration. A lot of people didn’t know that. He had gender- confused people serving in the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of War, and the Department of Energy. His actual Assistant Secretary of Health--Secretary of Health--was a gender-confused individual. And are those really the type of people we are supposed to trust in everyday life? But this is all part, unfortunately, of the Democrat socialist plans. They want to destroy every scientific fact and get rid of the absolute truth in this country. They don’t want you looking to God and the Bible for what is morally good or morally right. Instead, they want you looking to them for what is right or wrong. This is all about control, folks. That is what it is. That is why, for decades now, the Democrats have tried to destroy every morally good institution for their benefit. They have taken over our education system to brainwash our children with this woke mind virus. For decades, they have helped erode the sacred institution of marriage, telling people that marriage is a relic of the past or raising a family is not worth it. The Democrat socialist alternative is to make you think that you can identify as whatever you want and society should accept it. Because of this lie, we are seeing the younger generation that is growing up now plagued with mental illness. The left loves to preach to all of us about kindness and tolerance, but it is not kind to affirm the delusions of someone who is clearly struggling with mental illness. In fact, the kind thing to do is to sincerely encourage them to get help before they harm themselves and others. We must put a stop to gender confusion before more innocent people lose their lives. I yield the floor.”

“I am honoring Army veteran Ashlie Combs as our Veteran of the Month. She served in Iraq and now works to help veterans get affordable mental health care.”

“Mr. President, veterans’ mental health is one of the most unspoken struggles our brave men and women in uniform endure after serving our country. Many struggle silently and alone, which is why suicide has become a leading cause of death among our veterans. Combating the mental health crisis for Alabama veterans has become the No. 1 mission of U.S. Army SPC Ashlie Combs of Rainbow City. Ashlie enlisted in the Army in 2003 after graduating from Bay Minette High School. She grew up in a military family, so she knew the hardships of military life. But the September 11 attacks made Ashlie want to do her part to protect our great country. She deployed to Iraq in 2007, where her team carried out multiple search and rescue missions in order to make sure no soldier was left behind as the war was winding down. Ashlie and her husband eventually relocated back to Alabama, where she realized there was a lot to be done in making sure veterans aren’t left behind when it comes to their mental health. She got involved in various veterans’ organizations from the American Legion to her local VFW post, where she connected with vets from all different walks of life. Along the way, she got involved in the local veterans treatment court, where she has spent countless hours helping set vets up for success. Ashlie goes to great lengths to see veterans through their treatment from start to finish. She recently received her graduate degree in counseling from Auburn University so that she can do this kind of work full-time. Her goal is to bridge the gap between mental health care and affordability to receive care for those who truly need it. September is Suicide Prevention Month, and we are fortunate to have veterans like Ashlie who use their experience to help veterans struggling with their mental health. It is my honor to recognize Ashlie Combs as the September Veteran of the Month.”

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“Social Security is running out of money, and politicians are afraid to talk about it. The money people pay in is spent immediately instead of being saved or invested. We need to stop taxing Social Security benefits. We should let Americans invest their retirement money in the stock market instead of letting the government waste it.”

“Mr. President, I want to talk about a subject people just love to talk about. I have come to the floor to talk about a big scam in our country. It is happening in broad daylight before our very eyes. Politicians here in Washington know what is going on, but they refuse to speak about it. They are too worried about getting reelected in most cases, and they think telling the truth about the scam will hurt their chances of staying in power. Well, here is the sad truth: For decades now, the American people have paid into Social Security each month without having any idea if they will ever see a cent of the money they put in. Since being signed into law in 1935 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our great President, Americans’ money has been going in the front door of the Federal Government and then going right out the back door. Your dollar doesn’t grow, and it doesn’t come back to you or your children. It is a big, gigantic, blown-up Ponzi scheme, and the last time I looked, people who do Ponzi schemes usually go to jail. Every American is forced to participate in it. You have no choice. You don’t have a say in the matter. Whether you are 17 or 67, more than 6 percent of your paycheck is taken out by the Federal Government to pay for Social Security--your so-called retirement. That might not seem like a lot, but to millions of Americans struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, that 6 percent is a huge sacrifice. Americans have been paying into this program for years, only to see a fraction of what they have been promised. It really makes you wonder how this government-approved Ponzi scheme is legal. The truth is that this ``retirement savings’’ program is 100 percent broke. It is absolutely broke, just like our Federal Government--$40 trillion in debt. The Social Security trust fund is projected to run out of its reserve money in 2032--just a few years from now. You know, when these funds are depleted, senior citizens could see a cut in their monthly check up to 22 to 25 percent of their benefits. On average, that is $500 a month. You know, if the Federal Government were to try to save the program, it would most likely mean that your taxes would skyrocket. Mr. President, 38 percent of mandatory spending within the Federal budget annually goes toward the failing Social Security Program. Yes, the money you send up here, 38 percent a year goes to Social Security-- not the money that you already sent because, guess what, it has been sent and it has been spent and scammed out of our system. It is not there. In other words, almost $1.6 trillion every year of your taxpayer dollars is being spent on a program that is currently scheduled to go bankrupt in 6 years. So basically, the money you send up here has been spent and now is nowhere to be found. The Social Security Program is the single largest program we are wasting our tax dollars on--the biggest. It is a mind-boggling program to say the least, but don’t worry, it gets worse. After decades of having Social Security taken out, millions of Americans have to pay taxes when they go to collect their Social Security. Yep, you heard exactly right. After you pay taxes and you put it in there for savings for many years and you get it back, guess what--you have to pay taxes on it now because our former President and former Senator, Mr. Joe Biden, when he was a Senator in 1983, got the great idea of, let’s tax Social Security. What a scam. Depending on which tax bracket you are in, between 50 percent to 85 percent of your benefits can be taxed by the Federal Government. Last year, I introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act to stop the unjust double tax on Social Security benefits. Thankfully, the One Big Beautiful Bill included senior deductions that significantly reduce Federal taxes for the majority of retirees. Thank goodness. In a day and age where the cost of living is skyrocketing, our seniors should not experience a second tax on their Social Security when they have already paid tax on that money. If we must keep this outdated program, the least we can do is to ensure that senior citizens don’t get slapped with a double tax. Despite what millions of Americans have been tricked into believing, it turns out that paying into Social Security does not entitle you to a fixed pot of money. Everybody thinks: We are going to pay in, and I am going to get a lot of money in the end. The sad reality is that many Americans won’t see a cent of the money that they paid into Social Security. Basically, Social Security is just, folks, another tax--a tax on both employees and employers since most companies have to match the 6 percent that their employees are forced to pay out of their paychecks. Yeah, they double the tax. This is socialism. It is highway robbery. And for the last 60 years, we have known this program was going under, but no one up here has been willing to fix it. In fact, Social Security is known as the third rail of politics that no one up here is allowed to talk about. Don’t talk about Social Security because we don’t have a solution, and we might lose our jobs. In fact, Social Security is known as that third rail because nobody will touch it. It is taboo to talk about Social Security. But my question is: Why? Why is that? We work for the people. We work for the taxpayers. We have known this program was going bankrupt for years. It has been a disaster since day one. When millions of Americans are going to reach retirement age soon, we had better look out. They are expecting to get their money. They are expecting to get the money that they paid into Social Security for years. They are going to get screwed over with nothing left, and this is going to be a serious problem. The Social Security scam doesn’t stop there. As you know, Joe Biden welcomed tens of millions of illegals into this country with open arms. They said that our borders are closed. Yep, after they let 20 million people in that shouldn’t be here. These aren’t nice people either, most of them. Many of them are rapists, murderers, drug lords, and gang members. Well, it turns out, the Biden administration and Alejandro Mayorkas, our great Homeland Security Director, they weren’t just letting these illegals into our country without vetting them; they were handing them Social Security and Medicaid benefits as they were coming into the door. Welcome to the United States of America. We are broke, but we are going to give you money. We are going to give you a Social Security number. It is no wonder we are broke. While millions of Americans will never see the Social Security benefits that they worked hard to pay into throughout their career, illegals, they are getting money. They are getting rich off the money that Joe Biden said that they could have. It is disgusting, but it is not surprising. This is our Federal Government. So why aren’t we allowed to talk about it? It is almost like the system was set up to fail from the get-go. I caught a lot of flak when I brought this up in a hearing just a few years ago. What is this guy talking about? We are going to get Social Security. Yep. If you believe that, I got beach land I will sell you out in Arizona. If every single American had invested the money that they are forced to pay in Social Security each month into a stock--if they had done that, they would have gotten 10 times the money that they put in, if it was just invested in the stock market. But do you know where it was invested in? Most people don’t know this. Your money, when it comes here, is put into Treasury bonds that have very low returns--very, very low--not even close to anything that you would ever invest in yourself. That is where your money goes. Don’t be naive. The reason Social Security is invested in bonds is because it is being used to basically prop up the Federal Government. We are broke. We don’t have any money. Please send more. Can we raise the Social Security tax and just tell them they are going to get more money at the end? Folks, it is a scam. If this money had been invested in the stock market, again, you would have had 10 to 15 times more money. It is embarrassing, but apparently we are not supposed to bring that up. To his credit, President George Bush tried to save Social Security in 2000. He tried to privatize a lot of this money. If we had just done that--if this body in here would have just said: OK, we know we screwed it up for 40 years. Let’s go ahead and do it. Let’s get out of this jam. They didn’t want any part of it because they wanted to steal the rest of the money, and that is exactly what is going on. He suggested that younger workers divert their portion--young workers divert their portion--to a money market account that would pay for theirs in the future and ours today, those of us that are close to the Social Security. But, of course, the DC swamp up here, they shut that down fast: Let’s don’t talk about Social Security. It is taboo. It is a dang shame. The program might not be on the verge of bankruptcy today if they had just invested part of the young people’s money into the market. But you have to remember, the government relies on your money for their slush fund. The Federal Government stopped working in your best interest a long, long time ago. The average taxpayer earning the median wage is paying approximately $3,500 to $4,500 annually into the Social Security Program. Over a 40-year work period, that is around $140,000 to $180,000. That could have gone toward a 401(k), and you would have had money to retire on. People would be seeing much greater returns. We had better start figuring this out, folks. We had better start figuring it out. This group up here, a lot of them say: I am going to be gone. I won’t have to worry about it. Somebody is going to pay the price. It won’t be long until people will be coming right around this building going: Where is my money? Do you remember January 6? Yep. January 6 was a pretty bad day. I was here. I sat right over there. It was my very first day here. I was thinking: What a disaster I have gotten into. Well, if you start telling people, ``You are not getting your Social Security money,’’ it is going to get ugly. And I don’t blame them--not one bit. We are $40 trillion in debt. There is no sign of it slowing down. The bottom line is we need to get bureaucrats and politicians out of this mess, stop the Social Security scam, let people really know what is going on, and give the money back to the people. We need to make sure Americans get what they were promised, or we need to come up with an alternative solution that would allow Americans to make their own retirement investments. Give them their money, or let’s put it in a money market account. The stock market is booming. It is far past time Washington, DC, starts working for the people that we are supposed to represent. What a thought. That is mind- boggling, isn’t it? Why would we do that? We work for ourselves up here. We don’t work for the people. It is ridiculous. It is a scam. Not for special interests. Not for career politicians entrenched in bureaucracy or for Washington elite pet projects. Instead of spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need, why don’t we put the money back into the American people’s pockets and tell them the damn truth: We stole your money, but we are going to try to get your money back. Not only is it in America’s best interest to do this; it is the right thing to do. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). The Senator from Delaware.”

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“I am asking permission for five Senate committees to meet today. Leaders from both parties agree.”

“Mr. President, I have five requests for committees to meet during today’s session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committees are authorized to meet during today’s session of the Senate: The Committee on Armed Services is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on nominations. The Committee on Finance is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 11:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on nominations. The Committee on Foreign Relations is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing. The Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 10:15 a.m., to conduct a hearing. The Select Committee on Intelligence is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 3 p.m., to conduct a closed briefing.”

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“I am asking permission for five Senate committees to meet today. Both party leaders have approved these meetings.”

“Mr. President, I have five requests for committees to meet during today’s session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committees are authorized to meet during today’s session of the Senate: The Committee on Armed Services is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on nominations. The Committee on Finance is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 11:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on nominations. The Committee on Foreign Relations is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing. The Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 10:15 a.m., to conduct a hearing. The Select Committee on Intelligence is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 3 p.m., to conduct a closed briefing.”

“I am warning the country that Islam is dangerous and does not fit with American values. I believe Muslim immigration is harming Europe through crime and culture changes, and that it is threatening our country too. I want the federal government to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and ban Islamic religious law nationwide.”

“Mr. President, I have come to the floor several times over the last year to warn of the looming threat about Islam infiltrating the United States of America. You know, I know there are people who sometimes roll their eyes when I talk about this, but I express serious concerns about what Islam teaches and how it is incompatible with our Judeo-Christian values. This is why I say that Islam is not a religion. It is a death cult. Don’t believe me. Just look at the report that came out recently in the United Kingdom. This report, which I have a picture of behind me, made international news: the ``Rape Gang Inquiry Report.’’ This report, of which I have a picture--this isn’t a flimsy report. It was introduced into Parliament by Rupert Lowe, who had a successful career in finance before running for Parliament in 2024. It is also cosponsored by five other Members of the UK Parliament. The explosive report says that Muslim rape gangs are operating in over 40 percent of the United Kingdom. The report details how White British girls are being trafficked and exploited by Muslim men across the United Kingdom. The report claims that there have been at least 250,000 victims who have been trafficked by these third-world Muslim immigrants. You know, the report describes a consistent pattern for the Muslim rape gangs. Girls as young as 11 were groomed with gifts, alcohol, and drugs. They were picked up from schools, from care homes, and subjected to gang rape, trafficking, torture, forced Islamic conversion, and lifetime trauma. These are some of the worst things that you can possibly imagine that really make you sick to your stomach, but it is real, and it is happening to hundreds of thousands of young women across Europe. The report states that, roughly, 87 percent of those convicted in the child sexual exploitation cases ``bore distinctively Muslim names.’’ Surprise. Surprise. That is because these heinous acts are acceptable and even encouraged under the teaching of Islam. Islam teaches that Muslims are superior to nonbelievers, and it enables Muslim men to treat non-Muslim girls as property--as property--available for sexual abuse. The doctrine of Muslim superiority is drawn from documents written by Muhammad, which clearly state that Muslims are superior and have a duty to ``correct’’ nonbelievers. For example, in one part of the Quran, it says that Muslims are the ``best of peoples for humanity’’ as long as they maintain faith in Allah. At the same time, Muslims are taught to be hostile toward non-Muslims. In addition, Muhammad taught his followers that men are superior to women; that men can marry women without consent as young as 6 years old; and that men can sexually abuse and rape non-Muslim women. It is their right, they think. Where is the outrage from the so-called feminist groups on this issue? They are nowhere to be found, unfortunately. The report goes on to say that there was a deliberate failure in the United Kingdom to protect victims or to stop this from happening. Police discouraged reporting, destroyed evidence, and sometimes even shielded the evil men who were doing this to young women. The National Health Service discharged victims without making sure they had a safe place to go home to. Schools excluded victims rather than protected them. Taxi licensing authorities renewed permits for drivers without bothering to check if they were involved in any of the trafficking of victims. The major political parties, along with the UK Government, willingly--willingly--turned a blind eye to the blatant sex trafficking happening right under their noses--all in the name of being politically correct. Let me be clear about this: By refusing to address the Islamist sex trafficking of hundreds of thousands of innocent girls, the UK Government enables these sick criminals. Folks, Europe is gone. Just go over there and visit. They have fallen victim to mass migration, which is wiping out the cultural identities, security, and foundations of their countries. Did you know that the No. 1 most popular name of baby boys born in the United Kingdom now is ``Muhammad’’? It has been that way for 3 years. You would think it would be ``Charles,’’ after the King, or ``William,’’ after the next in line to the throne. No, it is not. The millions of Muslims who have moved to the UK are having babies, and they are naming them after the most popular figure, which now in Europe is Muhammad. This is a takeover--a hostile takeover. I have said this many times: Europeans have the right to fight in the streets to take back their countries. They have got to fight back. We saw an example of this last week in Scotland. A Scottish man took matters into his own hands when he reached a breaking point. He knew his government had sold him out. There was no one to protect him or his family from violence from these Third World Muslim migrants. It wasn’t there. There was no protection. To be clear, I am not advocating for violence, but this will soon be the reality in every European country if they don’t start sending foreigners back to their home countries as soon as they possibly can-- ASAP. When a government imports millions of Third World Muslims who refuse to assimilate and who actively want to destroy any semblance of Western civilization, people are going to start taking matters into their own hands. That is what usually happens. I wish I could say that the United States is immune to such dangers, but, sadly, what is happening in Europe is a foreshadowing of what is to come here in our own backyard if we are not careful. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, Third World Muslims flooded--flooded-- American cities like Minneapolis; Dearborn, MI; and parts of Virginia with one goal in mind--one goal--to radically change the ethnic, religious, and political makeup of our country, the United States of America. That is their plan. They are doing it in Europe. Now they are coming here. Thanks to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the enemy, folks, is now inside the gates. You would have to be stupid to think that what is happening in Europe couldn’t happen here. ``Oh, it can’t happen in the United States.’’ It is happening as we speak. The same cult ideology that empowered the human trafficking of White women in the United Kingdom is alive and well here in the United States of America. In the 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood created a blueprint known as ``The Project,’’ outlining a long-term plan to establish Islamic dominance worldwide by infiltrating Western institutions. That is their plan. ``The Project’’ explicitly instructs Muslims to create parallel societies within their host countries and to reject all assimilation into Western culture. Since 1986, Herndon, VA--not too far from here--has been home to the International Institute of Islamic Thought. Think about that--just down the road. This institute was established with the sole purpose of eliminating Western influence in every field of human knowledge. We are talking science; we are talking history, psychology, and politics. Then they would rebuild it. They are changing it so it will be from an Islamic viewpoint. It is not our viewpoint. It is not our history. Simply put, they are taking advantage of our laws and, ultimately, are destroying our country. In short, ``The Project’’ outlines a long-term plan to establish Islamic dominance worldwide by infiltrating and eventually taking control of the nation that they are in. This document is operational, and it has a manual that has guided Muslim Brotherhood networks for several decades. It isn’t just getting here; it has been around a long time. You are seeing parts of their plan play out today in several States, like Texas, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York. You know, even my State of Alabama has become a focal point of the Islamic Network’s goal of destroying Christianity and of eliminating Western society. The RAIR Foundation recently uncovered some disturbing facts about the Birmingham Islamic Society in my State. Their so-called Islamic Society admits to being 100-percent rooted in Sharia law. It has got ties to the North American Islamic Trust, which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The RAIR Foundation’s research also claims that the Birmingham Islamic Society has employed imams with direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The mosque’s constitution reveals that every aspect of the mosque’s operations, memberships, finances, and even the personal affairs of its members is subject to Sharia law. The Birmingham Islamic Society’s constitution declares Sharia to be the supreme authority over the entire organization. To them, Sharia overrules all of our Federal, State, and local laws. I know the State of Alabama has passed a law to prohibit State courts from enforcing or considering any foreign international or religious law if it violates the U.S. or Alabama Constitution. I trust the Alabama courts will look into this as soon as possible in Birmingham. You know, I have talked many times about how Sharia law is fundamentally incompatible with our Constitution and our society. It has no place--no place--in the United States. We are living in a dangerous time during which people are afraid to say the truth because they don’t want to be canceled or talked about. Bad things start to happen when good people sit idly by and do nothing to address the problems that are plaguing our society today. We can’t stay silent. If we do that, we are no better than the leaders of the UK, who sat on their hands while 250,000 young girls were raped and trafficked-- 250,000. What is wrong with these people? The young girls were raped and trafficked just over the last few years. For too long, people have tiptoed around the issue. They have been afraid to hurt somebody’s dang feelings or to make somebody uncomfortable--but the time for being politically correct had better be over. The truth is that radical Islam extremists want every single freedom-loving American to convert to Islam or be killed by the sword. That is what they study and believe. Thanks to President Trump, our borders are secure. We are stopping mass migration and are turning away people who want to hurt our country when we have got them here already. This action is saving our country right now, but it only takes the next Democrat-Communist President to reopen the floodgates to mass immigration. The disease of Islam has been allowed to fester and spread in our country for a long time. The mullahs are just waiting until they are in the majority to take our country and force Sharia law on everybody who lives in the United States of America. Folks, it is coming. So the question is, Will we continue this path and end up like the UK and the rest of the European countries, or will we say ``Enough is enough,’’ and refuse to give up our country to the enemy? I was glad to see President Trump officially designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, but that is not quite enough. I am calling on President Trump to ban the Muslim Brotherhood from this country. They don’t need to be here. They are our enemies. They are inside the gates. We also need to ban Sharia law on a Federal level, not just on a State level. This hateful, murderous ideology has no place in our country. It is growing, and we are not saying anything about it. It doesn’t need to be here now--it doesn’t need to be here ever--and we had better wake up. I yield the floor.”

“I want to honor Leo Finn of Cullman, Alabama, as our July Veteran of the Month. He served our country in the military for 36 years, including in Vietnam and Afghanistan.”

“Mr. President, the Book of Proverbs tells us that ``without a vision, people perish.’’ For SGT Leo Finn of Cullman, AL, he has had a clear vision for his life from day one. Leo feels he was ``born to serve in the military’’ and spent 36 years serving our country in the Army and Army National Guard. Leo’s conviction to serve has been an asset to our country during some of the most troubling times, including the Vietnam war and War on Terror. Shortly after finishing college in Cullman, Leo enlisted in the Army. He quickly deployed to Vietnam, where he spent the next 2 years in the fight against communism in Southeast Asia. Upon returning home, he married his wife of 54 years, Sandra, and relocated back to Cullman where they have spent the last five decades working and raising their family. Leo remained in the Army, eventually transitioning to the National Guard, while keeping up two to three other full-time jobs. He deployed a second time in the early 2000s to Afghanistan, where he served as a platoon sergeant, sharing this same sense of purpose with those in his company. From Alabama to Vietnam to Afghanistan, Leo has made the Yellowhammer State proud. Now, he stays involved in the Cullman community through his membership at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and his local VFW Post. Over the last few years, Leo has faced cancer head-on, but it hasn’t slowed him down or made him lose his vision. He faced his diagnosis with the same philosophy he faced our enemies abroad: with bravery and without fear. It is no wonder that his friend and colleague Joe Black speaks so highly of Leo after all he has endured, saying: ``His dedication, professionalism, and commitment to duty set an example for everyone who had the opportunity to serve alongside him. Leo Finn represents the very best of the Alabama National Guard and the generation of veterans whose sacrifices helped preserve the freedoms we enjoy today.’’ I am thankful for Leo’s calling to serve our State and country through all the challenges he has faced. It is my honor to recognize him as the July Veteran of the Month.”