The program's financing gap can be more than fully addressed without cutting benefits.

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Madam Chair, while the bill before us attempts to address a real and serious issue, I must oppose it in its current form because it is drafted in a way that is unnecessarily broad and would have a…

I am particularly grateful to them with their work.

Thank you for talking.

I would just like to ask you if you would be willing to work with me, and I know Senator Wyden is interested in this on the Finance Committee as well, in a general look at how to do cliff smoothing.

As most viewers will understand, the Budget Committee has very specific responsibilities related to the actual budget process.

I appreciate your advocacy for it and your call for further support for it.

Reforming Social Security's payroll tax cap and treating investment income like wages could close more than 100 percent of the long-term financing gap.

I assert that our Tax Code has been corrupted by special interests, that powerful interests rich enough to pay for lobbyists and fund Super PACs have looted our tax system to make themselves even richer.

I am here for the 34th scheme speech on the right-wing billionaires' covert scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. And I am here to report real progress in our work to restore the integrity of the Court, and wrest it from…

today, I am joining Senator Capito to introduce the Innovation in Pediatric Drugs Act of 2024 in order to improve access to needed therapies for children. Children are not just small adults. Drugs affect their developing bodies…

first of all, let me congratulate Senator Brown and Senator Casey and all the work they put into this effort and Chairman Wyden for his negotiation to where we are right now. This is a big deal for Rhode Island. We actually tried the child…

for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the RECORDS on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that…

There is no mandate.

Like Mr. Magaziner previously, I recognize and stand with Rhode Islanders who are in mourning for a giant in our community, Mr. Cedric Paul Huntley. Cedric, or Mr. Ced, as he was known, was a convener of communities and a staunch advocate…

I intended to vote NO on Roll Call No. 359, Ordering the Previous Question on H. Res. 1370.

I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak for 15 minutes and Senator Blackburn for 15 minutes prior to the scheduled vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I rise today to discuss the state of the war between Israel and Hamas. Tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will speak before a joint session of Congress. I hope he will propose a significant change in his approach to the…