When you talk about people losing faith in the American political system, it’s justified.

We’ve got to stand up and rally the American people to fight against this horrendous agenda.

There’s some kind of mythology out there that the only people working for minimum wage are kids trying to make some extra spending money … and that is not the case.

let me cut to the chase, and I will try to be brief here. We hear a lot of talk on the floor of the Senate about patriotism, about love of country, about how we all have to work together for the common good. It would seem to me that when…

I thank Chairman Hill for yielding me time to discuss this important issue. Mr. Speaker, it is no secret that the sky was the limit when it came to regulations for the last administration. Our Nation endured 4 years of costly new rules…

What these trade agreements, in essence, said to corporate America: ‘Hey, no problem. You can throw American workers out on the street.’

If Musk can do this to federal employees, some of whom are in unions … what do you think he’s going to be doing when artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job?

We need the Republicans to understand that workers in their states can’t make it on $7.25 and $10 an hour, they have got to join us and help us raise that minimum wage to $17 an hour.

In the year 2025, in the richest country in the history of world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages.

I think some of them are Republicans, some of them may be conservative Democrats.

The oligarchs have unlimited amounts of money. They own the media, they have tremendous power over the political process.

Unfortunately, you know, President Trump doesn’t control the Senate.

America must stop large corporations from moving jobs to 'low-wage countries.'

This week we learned that 75 percent of the men on that plane to El Salvador, the men who President Trump claimed were the worst of the worst, were, in fact, not hardened criminals. Are we surprised that it was another example of optics…

We need a rational and well-thought-out trade policy, not arbitrary actions from the White House.

I call up my amendment No. 1661 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The assistant bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Welch] proposes an…

Now is the time to address the crises facing working Americans. I ask for a ``yes'' vote. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Louisiana.

this amendment is simple and straightforward. Millions of Americans today are working for starvation wages. What this amendment does is raise the Federal minimum wage from an embarrassingly low $7.25 an hour to a living wage of $17 an hour…