like many of my fellow Americans I listened to the President's State of the Union Address 1 week ago, and while there are any number of the President's false or misleading assertions that I could refute, I want to take a minute to…

I am a public school proponent. I didn't go to kindergarten. They didn't have one. And the facility I started in was a two-room country school without indoor plumbing or running water. But I had great teachers.

on Thursday, January 24, a good friend of mine, former Daily News photographer Harry Hamburg, died. Both Marcelle and I were in shock at the news. Harry is one of our dearest friends, and Marcelle and I loved him. I have lost count of the…

I think where we are, a wage, a minimum wage, there is no question, to hire qualified people, you have to pay more than $7.25 unless it is a high school student that is just entering the labor force.

there is a lot of rhetoric here.

Twenty-four million Americans lack access to fixed broadband at high-speed internet speeds.

So my hat is off to you.

I commend you for your discussion about the community colleges. There is an enormous amount of evidence that is a relatively low-cost, very valuable way to go in getting workers new skills or skills to begin with.

I don't want to dwell on this but I don't understand a word you just said.

There is not a lot of money to be made for them.

We are on the verge of abandoning rural America and that has got to change.

And it turns out that is a fairy tale.

over the past few years, the national headlines have been dominated by stories about the high cost of pharmaceuticals. We have seen jaw-dropping examples of companies raising the cost of their products overnight, pricing too many families…

I think it is important that we had this hearing.

What we need is a positive platform, and somebody who's strong enough to just sort of - sort of do what Obama did, just do that to Trump.

Our base is young people who vote - vote overwhelmingly Democratic, women who now vote overwhelmingly Democratic, including White women, which wasn't the case in 2016, and people of color, all those groups have to show up.

I remain concerned about the frequent and abrupt leadership changes at the White River Junction VA Medical Center in my home state of Vermont.

the McConnell amendment expresses the sense of the Senate regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan, an action I have long supported. Many Senators, including several of the cosponsors of the amendment, have…