I introduced a bill that would provide $25 billion in funding to the Forest Service for urban tree planting.

These folks back there have lost their mind, you’ve lost your minds. You are the ultimate knuckleheads, because of what you are saying and standing for. People are losing their life.

These folks back there have lost their mind -- you`ve lost your minds. You are the ultimate knuckleheads and because of what you said or saying and standing for, people are losing their life.

I appreciate that the Senator from Florida, while I share his sentiments, did not press forward on insisting on the amendment, which would have delayed this, and most importantly, I think the Cuban people are the ones who are going to…

I am proud to come to the floor today to ask for unanimous consent on this bipartisan resolution expressing solidarity with the people of Cuba. This resolution passed out of the Foreign Relations Committee by a voice vote, with…

reserving the right to object, I totally agree that the Castro regime and its prodigy is a communist-socialist dictatorship in tyranny. Before the Senator was ever in this institution or involved with the issue, for 30 years, I have been…

We must let everyone understand that freedom is not free, that progress will never remain unless it is struggled for and fought for and worked for and sacrificed for. That is the story of America.

Congress must pass the For The People Act to push back against the great white supremacist lie that encouraged the January 6th insurrection.

I am glad to have founded, with Senators Tim Scott and Cory Booker, the new Taskforce on Black-Jewish Relations.

Congress must identify ways to address and dismantle white supremacy in law enforcement.

The Senate must pass S1 and honor the many who gave their lives to protect our democracy.

I agree with a lot of my colleagues on their concerns about the authorizations for military force that have been out there for too long and the need to reform them and revoke them.

Congress must pass H.R. 40 to study reparations for African Americans and create a U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.

But streamlining does not mean, I hope, giving up critical information.

the scope, duration, and nature would rise to, basically, a level of war that would require us to come to the Congress

The SAFE Banking Act, which I cosponsored, would fix this problem by allowing banks to provide financial services to cannabis businesses.

Those financial institutions work for everyone, for everyone.

You can always set a goal, even if something is not required. That is not an excuse.