
This legislation will fully fund Social Security for the next 75 years and expand benefits for senior citizens and people with disabilities.
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This legislation will fully fund Social Security for the next 75 years and expand benefits for senior citizens and people with disabilities.

it is hard really to know where to start. I am here on the Senate floor to talk about guns. In a world in chaos, we cannot forget about the chaos right here at home. Gun violence is killing our children: 19 students and two of their…

We spend twice as much per capita as any other country.

You cannot overstate how bad that effect would be on the American people.

As every Trustees Report makes clear, whether to expand benefits or cut them is a matter of values, not affordability.

If you ask the American people, 'Should we cut Social Security benefits, raise the retirement age?' there is a very loud, 'No.'

Social Security today is not on the line to go broke.

Under this legislation, 93.6 percent of households would not see their taxes go up by one penny.

Our job is to expand Social Security so that everyone in America can retire with the dignity that he or she deserves.

Poll after poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans, Republicans as well as Democrats and independents, believe that Social Security is more important than ever.

there is, in fact, a strong philosophical difference between many of us in the Democratic caucus and many in the Republican caucus, as to the best way forward with regard to Social Security.

In late April and early May when parents and Republicans in Congress began to sound the alarm about the unacceptable scarcity of baby formula, I thought to myself, Well, this is just another example of the compounding effect of the bad…

SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY: EXPANDING BENEFITS AND DEMANDING THE WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OR CUTTING BENEFITS AND INCREASING RETIREMENT ANXIETY

It is said that a civilized society that can no longer feel outrage can no longer be civilized. Ten people slaughtered in their grocery store. Nineteen children and two teachers massacred in their school, only to have parents who had…

The average price of gasoline has more than doubled since President Biden was sworn into office. That is not a coincidence. After all, before he took office, he told us he would ``end fossil fuel.'' Now, Americans are finding out the hard…

I thank the gentlewoman from Virginia for yielding me time to speak on this very important and lifesaving program as we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the creation of the 340B program. I applaud the gentlewoman from Virginia for her…

You`re not voting about the individual right to bear arms, there`s plenty of arms that people can bear.

There is no other country on earth that allows this and there is no other country on earth which loses as many children’s lives because its citizens and its politicians are unwilling to do anything about it.