I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 8, as…

Biden says that states can use some of their federal stimulus money for policing and I`m sure he sees this as a good political strategy to answer Republicans who claimed he wants to defund the police.

independent media play an invaluable role in a resilient - in resilient and prosperous societies. Journalists are truth tellers who hold leaders accountable and keep information flowing freely. That is needed now more than ever in Hong…

The Biden-Harris administration is committed to taking on unfair Chinese trade policies in all sectors, including textiles.

This shouldn`t be a red or blue issue. It`s an American issue. We`re not changing the Constitution. We`re unfortunate. We have an opportunity to come together now as Democrats and Republicans as fellow Americans to fulfill the first…

This idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration, it did not generate mass incarceration. What happened is the mass incarceration occurred by the states setting mandatory sentences.

our elected officials should be racing to close these loopholes that really allow anyone to get a gun no questions asked.

I`ve been at this a long time. And there are things we know that work to reduce gun violence and violent crime and things that we don`t know about. But things we know about, school is off for the summer, teenagers are in tough…

It’s zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations. I repeat zero tolerance. If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background…

Look, the bipartisan bill from the very beginning, it was understood there’s going to have to be the second part of it. I’m not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest I have -- that I proposed.

I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone.

If you willfully sell a gun to someone who`s prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with tracing request from inspectors, my…

But if only one comes to me, I`m not -- if this is the only thing that comes to me, I`m not signing it. It`s in tandem.

I know it's hard to believe, but this very day, violent drug offenders will commit more than 100,000 crimes on this day alone. And the sad part is it that we have -- we have no more police in the streets of our major cities than we had 10…

We`re not going to change the constitution, we`re enforcing it.

background checks actually do keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn`t have them.

Zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations. If you will sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully failed to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a…

This to me millions of good paying jobs, and fewer burdens felt at the kitchen table and across the country safer and healthier communities. But it also signals to ourselves and to the world that American democracy can deliver. Because of…