The people who care are firefighters and nurses and teachers because they pay taxes with every single paycheck.

What Republicans don't tell the billionaires... is that billionaires often don't report income close to $400,000.00 because they live off their borrowings.

I welcome the bipartisan commitment not to cut Social Security, but it's not rock solid.

It seems odd that the future of this Northwest would be determined by a group of people that get together, unelected.

I am particularly challenged by seeing how agencies are acting in a way that would moot the oversight of Congress.

I also asked Chair Mallory if the CEQ was taking an active role in guiding the future of the dams.

I wanted you to say it out loud so everybody here knew that their future is being mediated by a group of parties to a lawsuit, and that they have no part in it.

I had the opportunity to ask the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, Brenda Mallory, if it was the position of the Biden administration that these four dams should be removed or breached without congressional authorization.

She assured me that Congress would have to authorize such action.

50 years ago this week, Oregon became the first State to decriminalize cannabis. I was honored to be a part of that process. It is time for the Federal Government to catch up. We owe it to the generations of Black Americans targeted by the…

I am going to yield now to Chairman Menendez, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, because he and I work very closely together on all of these kinds of issues, on the Foreign Relations Committee and the Finance Committee…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H. Res. 461, a harmful resolution that condemns public schools for showing humanity in helping vulnerable people. Listening to this debate, it sounds…

I will be brief because I know my colleagues want to go to the other body. I think this is very unfortunate. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our country, and this is a great opportunity for the world. The fact is that there has…

one topic there is much agreement on is the benefits of work, and our laws should support those who want to work. The bill I am introducing today will change Social Security so that parents and their children will know that working will…

before I make my unanimous consent request, I just want to reiterate that Senator Menendez and I are going to be working together on these issues. He made this point with respect to taxes, and we are going to be able to find common ground…

With that, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess subject to the call of the Chair. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:49 p.m., recessed subject to the call of the Chair and reassembled at 5:17 p.m. when…

in a moment I am going to put forward a unanimous consent request to pass a trade bill cosponsored by all the Democrats and Republicans on the relevant committee in the other body-- the Ways and Means Committee--and was ultimately passed…

if the U.S. keeps doing new fossil projects doesn't that essentially give the rest of the world a free pass