just 4 weeks ago, Members of the Senate gathered just down the hallway in Statuary Hall. We gathered to honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer, a woman who…

I would like to recognize Nancy Everhart on the occasion of her retirement from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board. Nancy Everhart has been a true Vermont leader in agriculture and conservation, dedicating her decades-long career…

I would like to call attention to the important work done by the Children's Literacy Foundation--CLiF--a Waterbury Center, VT, based organization that was established in 1998 to address children's literacy in Vermont and New Hampshire…

the COVID-19 pandemic has hit all news organizations and hit them hard at a time when they have rarely been so essential to the American people and our communities. News organizations have had to severely trim their staffs, while coping…

I'm going to fight for 100-day agenda which speaks to the needs and the pain of working families today.

People understand not only that climate change is an existential threat to the planet, they do understand that we can create millions of good-paying jobs transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency.

I think the American people, frankly, are sick and tired of the lies. They're sick and tired of an anti-science president who endangers all of us.

I do not believe that most people today, after the pandemic, consider themselves better off than they were four years ago.

They would like a president, maybe, who would focus on their needs. How do we get health care for all? How do we deal with the pandemic? So maybe it's time for us to focus on the needs of the American people and not just the craziness of…

Right now, if there was ever a moment in American history where the Democratic Party has got to be strong, bold, and stand up the powerful special interest, this is that moment.

They would like a president maybe who would focus on their needs.

Mitch McConnell has already told you, and that is no matter of what Trump wants, no matter what Nancy Pelosi wants, he has 20 United States senators who don't want to vote for anything. They're turning their backs on American workers in a…

What Mitch McConnell does not want is a bill which essentially becomes a Democratic bill and the Republicans look stupid.

I concur with everything that our distinguished assistant leader has said. We are in the middle of the most devastating health crisis in modern history, and the American people are paying a terrible price. Nearly 220,000 Americans have…

Let me be very clear, Lawrence, if you make more than $400,000 under the Biden plan, your taxes are going to go up. Joe Biden is not going to raise taxes on anyone who makes less than $400,000.

More than 207,000 Americans are dead, and there is no end in sight. One in six Americans is jobless. These are not just numbers. These are people. They have lost their livelihoods, their health, their careers. Many have lost everything. It…

It's always been about the virus. And now there's no way for the Trump campaign to evade the idea of the pandemic.

this is serious stuff. Boris Johnson ended up in intensive care and damn near died. And Trump probably got just as much of a viral load as Johnson did. They were both incredibly careless.