The American people are hurting.

Nobody wants to shut down the government, but I think the answer American people want their government to respond to the terrible crises that they are facing today, and you just can't walk away from that.

It would be outrageous and simply unacceptable for members of Congress to go home to their families, when tens of millions of working-class families in this country are facing economic desperation.

Well, clearly, the Republican leadership has rejected what the House did. As you know, the House has passed several important pieces of legislation, which were pretty comprehensive. And Mitch McConnell has been very clear that he did not…

I know we are about to vote, and I will speak further at another time about Senator Udall, but I just want to tell him what I told you--all of you--what I said to him when he finished speaking: In my 46 years here, it is one of the finest…

speaking both as a Senator from Vermont and as vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I am speaking with concern about what has been happening in the Senate. It has been 321 days since the first COVID-19 case was reported in…

I thank my dear colleague. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3884, the MORE Act. Since the war on drugs began, the Nation's prison population increased from 300,000 to a staggering 2.2 million people behind bars. In the decade between…

I do believe that the progressive movement deserves strong representation, and as earned, a strong representation in the Biden Cabinet so that we can go forward and fight for the needs of our working class and the middle class today that…

I think in all due respect to Leader McConnell, what he brought -- his proposal is literally laughable.

I think the progressive movement in America probably constitutes, you know, 35 to 40 percent of the Democratic Party. And I absolutely believe that those progressive, that movement deserves representation in the Biden Cabinet.

what is unbelievably disappointing is that when you have a President who is working overtime, to sabotage and destroy American democracy that you don't have more than a handful of Republicans will have the guts to say, yes, Joe Biden is…

I'm going to demand that workers and women get equal pay for equal work, that we cover all people during this pandemic with healthcare, and that we lower the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs.

Congress has already provided approximately $1 trillion through bipartisan legislation, including the CARES Act, to stabilize State and local economies and support communities.

I want to thank you also for the great work by both the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve throughout this pandemic response.

Back in Tennessee, folks are talking about how these funds sit unused while House Democrats continue to discuss spending an additional $3.4 trillion.

We continue to see strong economic recovery, and I hope we can continue that trend as we work towards the great American comeback.

Your fast action has allowed businesses in my district in Tennessee and across the country as well to keep their doors open.

I think the American people right now want a President who understands that the times we are living in, Anderson, are probably more dangerous than in any time since when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1932.