Children belong with families and loved ones, and facilities like Homestead must be the absolute last resort.

Upholding these responsibilities is a tall order, especially with this administration.

We agree with what you are saying. We want to support diversity and inclusion in any form and fashion we can.

Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 499. ____________________

I absolutely do.

Madam President, last Friday, I went with a group of Senate Democrats to visit several detention centers at our southern border, including the Border Patrol facility in McAllen and processing centers at Donna and Ursula, TX. The searing…

Madam President, finally, there is something we can vote on today at long, long last--the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund for those brave heroes who rushed to the Towers on 9/11. The light at the end of the tunnel of what has been a very…

Madam President, I am speaking on the bill as well as the amendments. In a short time, the Senate will vote on and pass a permanent reauthorization of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. In my short time on the floor, I can't do justice to…

Yesterday, I joined Chairman Pallone, Energy Subcommittee Chairman Rush, and other members of the committee to announce support for a 100 percent clean economy by no later than 2050.

We also acknowledge that any meaningful climate action will require significant federal investments; particularly in rural, deindustrialized, and environmental justice communities.

We have committed to ensuring this process will be open to all ideas and thoughtful in its response.

Our choices today will determine the kind of climate future we leave our children and grandchildren.

We cannot afford to wait until 2050, or even 2030, to act.

We must invest in just transition policies for fossil fuel-dependent workers and communities.

Congress is looking to this Committee to take a leading role in developing the policies to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Madam President, I rise to join my colleagues in speaking about our 9/11 heroes. I thank Senator Schumer for his extraordinary leadership, his unwavering support, his dedication to taking this across the finish line, and his unbelievable…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, after this vote, the people in the Gallery above us, these brave men and women who have suffered unbelievably, will not have to come here again. This should never have been a fight. It should never have taken this long to…