at a time when climate change poses an existential threat to the entire planet, I urge a ``no'' vote. Vote on Amendment No. 770

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There does not appear to be a sufficient second.

Let me thank my colleague from South Carolina. And I look forward to working with him. He is going to be the ranking member of the Budget Committee. We have a lot of work to do, and I look forward to working with him. As Senator Graham…

at a time when half of our workers are living paycheck to paycheck, when millions of workers are earning starvation wages, and when Congress has not voted to raise the minimum wage since 2007, I will do everything that I can to make sure…

Yes. We yield back time. We support a voice vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The yeas and nays were previously ordered.

we now come to the end of a debate that has gone on for over 14 hours, and we end this debate at a moment in which our country faces more crises, more pain, and more anxiety than at any time since the Great Depression. With the passage of…

there are no tax increases on small business in this. We support the Rubio amendment.

I regretfully oppose this amendment because I fear, at the end of the day, what will happen is that we will be cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and impacting some of the most vulnerable people in this country. Vote on…

I ask unanimous consent that it be in order to call up the following amendments in the order listed and that the amendments be reported by number: Cardin No. 716; Barrasso No. 653; Sasse No. 192; Graham No. 687; Ernst No. 132; Collins No…

I support this amendment. I hope we can do it through a voice vote. Vote on Amendment No. 816 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 816) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator…

I ask unanimous consent that the following amendments be called up in the order listed: Wicker-Sinema No. 261, Tim Scott No. 53, Rubio-Scott No. 69, Blunt No. 48, Thune No. 52, Young No. 54; further, that there be 2 minutes for debate…

I mean, we have got a president who summoned the mob. He incited the mob. And he instructed the mob to march to the Capitol and cause trouble.

for more than a year, our country has been in the grip of an unprecedented health and economic catastrophe. It was January, if we recall, of last year when the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was found in our country. Since then, more…

What it reveals, aside from the obvious cruelty of the policy, is that we had a government that was not paying attention to the function that an executive has to make things work as opposed to simply make pronouncements that had a…

The zero tolerance policy, obviously, was about intimidating families, and the zero tolerance policy, where it implemented as a tactic taking a child from the parent, was the most effective way of intimidating.

as the new chairman of the Budget Committee, I wanted to take a few moments to talk about the $1.9 trillion budget resolution that I hope will be passed late tomorrow night. I think sometimes our friends in the media make the political…

I ask unanimous consent that for the duration of the Senate's consideration of S. Con. Res. 5, the majority and Republican managers of the concurrent resolution, while seated or standing at the managers' desks, be permitted to deliver…

I rise today to speak in support of the budget resolution that was introduced today. Mr. President, let us be clear and let us in the Senate understand what the American people know all too well, and that is that our country is currently…