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For the first time since USDOT and FRA first awarded the project $177M in federal funding in Fiscal Year 2010, it is ready to proceed, and we cannot squander this opportunity.

For too long, Section 702 has jeopardized these protections, but we have a chance to end that abuse now. Let’s not wait any longer. Congress should reauthorize Section 702 with sensible reforms and finally put an end to the…

Section 702 must not be linked to President Trump’s efforts to suppress the vote. Instead, Congress should reauthorize it with reasonable reforms, bipartisan reforms, that protect our national security and safeguard Americans’…

But if my colleagues want to reauthorize Section 702 quickly, there is a simple solution… support these commonsense, bipartisan reforms supported by a majority of Americans incidentally to prevent Section 702 from being used to violate…

Section 702 enables surveillance of more than just foreigners overseas—millions of innocent Americans’ texts, emails, and phone calls are swept up in this dragnet if they communicated with a foreigner…

If you eliminate the legal process where an individual seeking status in America can assert their rights under the law, it seems to me you already pre-judged the case.

I urge my colleagues to reject this attempt to gut due process in our immigration court system and vote in support of this resolution.

These changes are not about efficiency. They are about finality, the end of the road for people who have been following the law every step of the way. They are about dismantling due process and destroying any means by which an immigrant…

We have fought too long and too hard to ensure that our elections are safe, secure, and accessible for all eligible Americans, and we must work together to combat these despicable disenfranchisement efforts.

Today, I spoke with the Illinois Realtors about how we can push federal legislation that would address our housing crisis and help more Americans afford homes.

The rising cost of building starter or single-family homes has spurred an affordability crisis that has priced millions of Americans out of owning or renting a home.

So while we send the President’s ballroom representative to represent the United States of America in St. Petersburg, Russia, and talk about Putin’s plans for rebuilding Russia’s economy, while that is going on, Russia is attacking the…

It also is long overdue for this chamber to act on Russia and Ukraine related legislation.

On Tuesday, President Trump went as far as to signal that the war in Ukraine was not a priority of the United States.

Imagine my surprise that amid all of these Russian attacks on Ukraine and neighboring countries, the Trump Administration sent a U.S. official to Putin’s annual economic conference earlier this month in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Remember when President Trump announced he would end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office? Instead, over a year and a half later, President Trump and Vice President Vance have publicly humiliated Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and…

Senate Democrats will continue to put forward legislation to help families with the rising cost of gasoline, groceries, housing, child and health care.

What is the President’s official response? ‘I love the inflation.’