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There is a class war going on, whether we want to recognize it or not.

CEO compensation right now, 400 times more than the average American worker.

the quick turnaround, timely turnaround is really going to be important, as you know.

With the support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act championed by Senator Sanders...

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of H.R. 1108, to extend the Federal Communications Commission's authority to auction spectrum. Congress has never let the FCC's spectrum auction authority lapse before…

I just want some reassurance of your commitment to reviewing FAA's current staff capacity in the electric aviation space.

It's ridiculous that the future for tens of thousands of workers in a company like Starbucks is up to the whims of just one person--Howard Schultz--who continues to oversee a company that breaks the law without sufficient consequence.

This Committee, by the way, must do everything possible to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

It seems that in the digital asset space, much of the friction, at least in the U.S., is between who would be the primary regulator.

I just want some reassurance of your commitment to reviewing FAA's current staff capacity in the electric aviation space.

We are seeing levels of income and wealth inequality that have never been seen in the history of the United States of America.

What common sense suggests... is that if a worker alone is in trouble, he or she does not have a lot of power to ask for better wages.

I rise today to express my strong support for the Women's Health Protection Act, to restore abortion access to women all across our country. Now, I first want to address what the Court did in Dobbs, a truly astonishing and tragic decision…

The response of companies like Starbucks... has been to turn around and throw a litany of dirty tactics at these employees.

Federal labor law still contains racist and sexist exclusions rooted in Jim Crow. We need to write new rules that protect all workers--Black, brown, and white--to ensure we can all thrive.

If a corporation is going to pride itself on corporate social responsibility in its mission statement or offer grand announcements on inclusivity, respect and a commitment to treating workers well, and if they're going to call their…

The first part was to issue a subpoena to Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, to ask him why he thought his company could violate labor law, Federal labor law, with impunity.

We need to pass the Richard Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act as soon as possible to protect collective action.