Because that--it is local control, business control, homeowner control, community control, community jobs.

The $15.00 minimum wage was included in the House Bill. We are going to make our case and this is enormously complicated... But we are going to make our case to the parliamentarian that we absolutely believe that raising the minimum wage…

We have to focus on climate change, on criminal justice and racial injustice, on immigration reform. We have enormous crises facing this country and we have got to go forward aggressively in standing up for the working families of this…

I think when you have for the first time in 200 years an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States, you want to know as much as you can about who was behind it and what happened then and the role of the President of the…

The debate of today is not about healthcare. It's not about climate change, it is not about education. It is, in fact, whether the Republican Party believes in democracy, or whether they're going to continue to believe in the big lie.

We don't believe in one authoritarian government, run by one person, Trump or anybody else, we don't. We believe in the rule of law.

I did. Mr. Counsel VAN DER VEEN. My judgment is irrelevant in this proceeding. It absolutely is. What is supposed to happen here is the Article of Impeachment---- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate will be in order. Senators, under the…

I send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Vermont, Mr. Sanders, has a question for both the counsel for the former President and the House managers. The clerk will read the question, and following our…

President Biden promised to raise the minimum wage over a period of several years to at least $15 an hour.

I think most of us understand that it is important we debate the issues and try to minimize the level of personal and vicious attacks.

We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

The next OMB Director will play a major role in determining whether those policy proposals succeed or whether they fail.

we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all of our people

I happen to believe that climate change is an existential threat to our country and the world.

it is absolutely imperative that we have an OMB Director who has the courage at this moment in American history to think big, not small

I am going to work with him to make sure that we implement those promises.

Health care, I have been the loudest Senator on reforming it. It is a broken industry.

I do not think anybody on your side denies that our infrastructure is crumbling.