I ask unanimous consent that the following staff members from my staff and from Senator Graham's staff be given all-access floor passes for the consideration of the bill: Majority staff: Michael Jones, Joshua Smith, Michael Lawliss…

section 3001 of S. Con. Res. 5, the fiscal year 2021 congressional budget resolution, allows the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates, and levels in the budget resolution for legislation considered…

in accordance with section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the waiver provisions of all applicable budget resolutions, I move to waive all applicable sections of that act and applicable budget resolutions for purposes of…

President Biden is right. He canceled the Keystone Pipeline because he is listening to the scientists, and what the scientists are telling us is that we have a small number of years-- 5, 6, 7 years--before this country and this world face…

I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. There are some people here who do not understand the crises facing the American people. Sixty-three percent of our people today are living paycheck to paycheck. Every day that we do not…

I ask unanimous consent that for the duration of the Senate's consideration of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the majority and Republican managers of the bill, while seated or standing at the managers' desks, be permitted…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. (The amendment is printed in the Record of March 4, 2021 under ``Text…

--cutting down. The Republican amendment simply does not do what the American people need right now. I ask for a ``no'' vote. Oh, I raise a point of order. I am sorry. Point of Order Mr. President, I raise a point of order that the pending…

I call up my amendment No. 972. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 972 to amendment No…

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter dated February 22, 2021, about tip wages, signed by hundreds of organizations There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows…

later today or tomorrow, as part of the American Rescue Plan, which we will be discussing in the next few days, which I happen to believe is the most significant piece of legislation to come to the floor of the Senate in decades in terms…

Any man's death diminishes me. We will never forget, the world will never forget, as we watched as a police officer knelt on George Floyd's neck for more than 8 minutes. George Floyd cried out for his mother, saying ``Mama, mama, mama…

I can think of no one better suited to be Deputy Director of OMB than Shalanda.

That is what Shalanda is best at. She knows how to work across the aisle and get the deal done.

She has done an excellent job in working with Democrats and Republicans.

S. Con. Res. 5, the fiscal year 2021 congressional budget resolution, included an instruction to the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to file enforceable levels in the Senate in the event the budget was agreed to without the…

We have an immigration crisis that must be addressed. It has been ignored for too long.

We have a major health care crisis and are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, as a human right.