U.S. State Attorneys General

We have a dedicated team of people who've been trained to do background checks.

Healthcare must be a right, not a privilege, and I will work hard to ensure that families across the Nation are able to secure the healthcare that they need.

It would be a shame, especially in rural communities...if we expand telehealth but forget them.

I think that we should move to reconciliation to get these kinds of agenda items through.

I believe Mitch McConnell, when he says that his goal is to make sure that Joe Biden doesn't accomplish his major goals so that Mitch McConnell can take back the Senate.

I completely believe Mitch McConnell when he says that his goal is to make sure that President Biden doesn't achieve any of his major goals.

Everyone should get vaccinated. Everyone means anyone. Anyone in this country, whether you`re a citizen or not, you are eligible to get the vaccine.

And all this resulted in shaking confidence in our electoral system and a profound unease, if not outright distrust about the results.

I find that totally amazing, that they want to get back millions of dollars without having followed the proper procedure.

SBA was supposed to apply the affiliation rule in a nondiscriminatory way, not depending on the political or any kind of leanings of a particular entity.

I think that is one of the concerns that we have.

Let's face it, there are people in this body that would like to defund Planned Parenthood at every turn.

Yes, usually the need exceeds the resources provided.

Another crisis is facing our National Parks and that is climate change.

Your documentary... made everyone, I think, aware of the importance of our national parks.

Well, the question is, Mr. Benge, do you need additional resources to enable this work to continue--particularly, as you say, in the coastal parks?

It is the best deal in America.

I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committee…

Mr. Trump, the Trump crime family, this is now a criminal investigation.

But you know, I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the House members are doing, at least on the Senate side.

Well, you have people like Marjorie Taylor Smith and others of her ilk on the House side, you know, they -- what can I say?

Of course, they will, because people who don't even want an independent commission are definitely going to paint a select committee doing the work as also partisan.

The fact is that they are not doing this country any favors. They're certainly not doing democracy any favors.

Maybe he's afraid for some of his members who are running for re-election, and they want to run away from the truth of what happened on January 6th.