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If you are wealthy in America, you will live many, many more years than if you are poor.

This bill will substantially raise taxes on the richest people in this country and the largest corporations.

No family in America would pay more than seven percent of their income for child care, universal pre K, free tuition at public colleges and universities.

We’re going to end that. We are going to deal in the most aggressive way imaginable with the housing crisis.

What I hope this legislation will do is restore the faith of the American people that the government can represent ordinary Americans, not just the wealthy and the powerful and their lobbyists.

This is probably the most consequential piece of legislation since the 1930s.

So, this is, I would say the most consequential piece of legislation being proposed since the Great Depression.

We cannot pass a piecemeal because to do it through regular order, you need 60 votes. We’re not going to get one Republican vote.

I would like to speak about a topic I spoke about before, and that is our policy toward Cuba. I couldn't help but think, as I look at the Cubans protesting in the street, especially as I see so many people in the streets in places where…

Thank you, Chairman Powell, for being here today and for your leadership throughout the pandemic and now during our economic recovery.

I think we are on the same page. My job is to do everything I can to see that the senate comes forward with the strongest possible legislation to protect the needs of the working families of this country, our kids, our parents. The deal…

over the weeks, I have been rising on the Senate floor to urge that the Senate take up and pass an emergency supplemental. So I am rising again to tell you what that emergency supplemental is, even though I have stated it over and over…

I ask unanimous consent that Senators Scott of Florida, Menendez, Tuberville, and Schumer be allowed to complete their remarks prior to the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Alabama.

These Republicans are nuts. They`re not all nuts. And that`s why The Lincoln Project is doing so well, is because they appeal to real conservatives who actually care about the party.

They have nothing to say. And when you have nothing to say that`s good for the country, you resort to the worst possible tactics.

It`s pretty frightening, really. I mean, the CPAC people have gotten more and more sort of off the charts. And Trump has always been a little nuts. But the thing that is so ironic about this is that the people they`re killing in Missouri…

These guys are not interested in serving the country. This is like Jim Jones in Guyana. It really is.

And the party, the Republican Party, would rather have power than do the right thing for America. And I think that`s a major problem.