It is finally seeing the United States Congress taking a hard look at the problems facing working families and responding rather than listening to corporate lobbyists, rather than listening to wealthy campaign contributors.

There is a reason why the rich get richer and so many other people are becoming poorer, and that is not just economic decisions but those are political decisions as well.

It shows that, in fact, not only can government respond to the crises and the pain that people are feeling.

The simple truth is that today in America the very, very rich are getting much richer, while tens of millions of working-class Americans are struggling to put food on the table and take care of their basic needs.

The issue we`re dealing with is will the Democratic Party, and we`re off to a really good start, have the courage to address the crises facing the American people even if it means taking on the big money interest.

The issue that we are dealing with today, income and wealth inequality, is an issue that has to be addressed and is an issue that will determine what kind of Nation we wish to become.

What I wanted to say is Jeff, you are worth $180 billion, B, $180 billion. You are the wealthiest person on earth. Why are you spending millions of dollars trying to defeat a union organizing effort in Alabama where your workers are…

To rebalance the economy it is necessary to provide more vigorous use of antitrust; substantially higher taxes on growing accumulations of income and wealth at the top; stronger labor protections to enable workers to join together to gain…

the Democratic proposal is to spread it more evenly with a little bit more focus on the lowest-earning Americans; the Republican philosophy is to concentrate benefits at the top

The desperate plea from parents as dozens of new bills target trans kids in sports.

There has got to be much more emphasis on fighting monopolies, and it is monopolies both in terms of big high-tech companies, also monopolies in terms of high finance, big pharma.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty, and that living wage should be at least 15 bucks an hour.

Today we are going to be talking about what it means morally and economically when one person in this country, the wealthiest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, has become $77 billion richer during this horrific pandemic.

We need to take a hard look at that and determine the kind of country we want to become. And I do not believe we want to become an oligarchy.

Is that the America that we want? I do not think so.

Repealing the estate tax would only benefit the top one-tenth of 1 percent who inherit over $11.7 million.

We are going to talk about the obscenity of the 50 wealthiest Americans now owning more wealth than the bottom half of our society.

the Republican tax plan was passed with unanimous Republican support and no Democratic support and the American Rescue Plan was passed with unanimous Democratic support and no Republican support