The team at Roca have been incredible partners in our shared work to end cycles of trauma and violence across Chelsea and across our Commonwealth,

If you traffic children, you should never get a pass from the United States government and I’m proud that my amendment passed and puts us on record standing up for victims and holding traffickers accountable,

Number one—on a macro-level—it really is important to end this war [in Iran], because it’s directly adding to the cost that everybody is paying. It’s having significant impact on our farmers,

President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ refusal to make a bipartisan agreement that reopens the government, lowers health care costs, and saves America’s health care should not cause Floridians to go without food. I am calling on the Trump Administration to continue to provide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits during the government shutdown. But our residents deserve a plan in the case that President Trump lacks the willingness to deliver,

Manufactured housing should be an opportunity for affordable homeownership, not a profit center for Wall Street,

This bill doesn’t make America healthier, it makes families hungrier,

If Republicans want to keep the government open, they need to be willing to negotiate real protections for Americans’ constitutional rights,

Young people have the most at stake in the climate crisis, yet for too long they’ve been left out of the decisions shaping their future,

HHS Secretary Kennedy struggled to defend his budget request last week. Why would he want to fund 4,600 fewer research grants? That is 4,600 [potential] cures. Those cuts would extinguish hope for patients, and devastate America’s standing as the world’s leader in medical research.

When we invest in education, we help provide students with the tools they need to succeed both in and outside of the classroom,

Our students, particularly students of color, perform better when taught and cared for by educators who reflect the communities they serve,

In the words of the late John Lewis, the right to vote is ‘the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument we have in a democratic society.’ When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and then reauthorized the bill in 2006, an overwhelming bipartisan majority supported the measure,

I am honored to accept the Inaugural John and Rita Canning Leadership Award from Northwestern Memorial today. Throughout my time in the Senate, making sure families have affordable health insurance and high quality care has remained on my heart and mind, as has ensuring federal funding for the medical research that makes new cures and treatments possible,

Central Florida sent me to Washington D.C. to deliver for them, and right now, we’re in a cost-of-living crisis that’s impacting everyone, and investing in transit that actually meets the needs of our people is one of the fastest ways to lift people up by connecting them to housing, jobs, and opportunity. On these subcommittees, I’ll be fighting to expand and modernize our transit systems, ease congestion, make our roads safer, and protect our planet for current and future generations,

Families and businesses in rural Illinois deserve to have reliable, affordable energy, and electric co-ops are critical to this goal,

Housing is a fundamental human right and the foundation for a stable and dignified life. People who have served their time and repaid their debt to society should be no exception,

This is a major step forward for countless Haitian families in Florida and across the country who have been living in fear and uncertainty,

This amendment was simple. If you attacked our democracy or assaulted police officers, you should never get a taxpayer-funded job,