Let me just say, factually, scientifically, you are wrong.

Well, that is horrific. Because we are in a situation; my State is burning up from climate change.

I'm very concerned about the strategy currently of holding the country hostage and saying we're going to drive the economy off of a cliff if we don't get changes that benefit the wealthy and hurt ordinary American families.

Well, that is horrific. Because we are in a situation; my State is burning up from climate change.

We need to pivot to renewables quickly, and should be expediting the thing that make that possible.

Our Credit Suisse investigation was about tax evasion and you had Credit Suisse, even after they got busted in 2014, do the same thing.

Doesn't it seem a little insane that tax cuts for the wealthy that have--and the powerful corporations that have created the bulk of this problem would then have the problem addressed by cutting basic programs for the most challenged…

I think the President has full power within his inherent authority to simple declare the debt limit null and void.

For 22 years it stayed one purpose, the deficit, reinforced every single year.

The House Republicans released their proposed agricultural funding bill this morning, and there is no doubt that they are ready to cut nutrition benefits. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to defend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…

I just wish it did not take 2 days to get a Congressional Delegation halfway around the world to start those meetings.

So in 1974, when the Budget Control Act was done, it has 100 percent of the senators vote for it and that was because it created a filibuster-free pathway for one purpose, deficit reduction; am I correct?

For 22 years it stayed one purpose, the deficit, reinforced every single year.

I think the first thing we can do is back up the IRS and give them the resources they need to do their job.

You've got four members of the Senate Finance Committee, two Democrats, two Republicans. And historically, the Finance Committee has worked in a bipartisan way.

This is an instance where these big pharmaceutical companies would make most of their sales in the United States, then they race overseas to, in effect, pretend that they were really residents there so they could pay very low taxes.

Our Credit Suisse investigation was about tax evasion and you had Credit Suisse, even after they got busted in 2014, do the same thing.

I love the word 're-shore', thank you.