We deserve better than foreign policy by tweet.

Mr. Speaker, I was proud to be joined by Katie Brenny at the State of the Union Address this week, a fifth-generation cattle farmer from Mazeppa, Minnesota. In order to maintain their farm, Katie and her husband, Ted, work day jobs to…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to remember the life of Dick Ames, a great friend who recently passed. Dick's contributions to the great State of Minnesota are countless. His impact on our progress and the future of our great State is…

As a union member, I fought to make sure that for dignified work there was dignified pay.

Madam President, last night President Trump delivered the State of the Union Address, and he talked about a lot of issues, including immigration and national security, healthcare, and prescription drugs. He talked about the need for…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Van Hollen for being here to talk about this. When I first became aware of this issue, which was over what was the Christmas holiday for us--Federal employees and Federal contractors were already not working…

Senator Cardin, I want to take a moment to thank you so much for your leadership on this and for making sure that Federal employees get the backpay they deserve. I know that when this issue first became clear to me, you were one of the…

Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

And to me, that just morally does not sit well.

That just morally does not sit well.

I am, with my colleague from Texas, on really having an old-fashioned conversation about this.

I truly believe budgets really are a value statement.

So when we are talking about paying people a minimum wage, we are talking about making sure that there is value in the work that they are doing, and that uplifts workers.

I want us to root this conversation in the interest of protecting human life and furthering our values of protecting human life.

We have known for years about Saudi brutality and its atrocities, its atrocity record of human rights, women's rights, and religious freedom.

Madam Speaker, like many of my colleagues, I came to Washington to work across the aisle and create economic opportunities for Minnesota families. Since I have gotten here, I have regularly met with Democrats and Republicans to discuss the…

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 57. ____________________

Mr. President, I come to the floor to implore my colleagues and the President to end the shutdown and reopen the Federal Government. We are now on day 34 of this shutdown, which is well past being the longest in American history. When you…