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To my leader, Leader Schumer, I mean, that is the pain of these stories from the families that I read of the fear that they have to rely on these lifelines that are going to be cut and of the services that are going to be cut that are…
In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy.
Listen to John McCain explain why he voted ‘no’ the last time the Republican Party tried to unite and tear down health care with no idea how to fix it, threatening to put millions of Americans in financial crisis and health care crisis.
I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.
I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.
It is maddening in this country to create greater and greater health care crisis and for us not to solve it but to battle back and forth between trying to make incremental changes or to tear it all down with no plan to make it better…
On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of Rule XX, this 15- minute vote on passage will be followed by a 5-minute vote on…
More than 700,000 New Jerseyans sent me here to be their voice in Congress and to address the challenges they face each and every day. Many of those constituents have sent me messages advocating for what is most important to them…
this is an overdraft speech. It is about a commonsense rule that lowers costs for millions and millions of Americans, while carefully targeting, really, the most egregious abusive overdraft practices in the financial industry today. Banks…
I missed the following votes, but had I been present, I would have voted: YEA on Roll Call No. 74, NAY on Roll Call No. 75, and NO on Roll Call No. 76. ____________________
This bill is going to lead to exploitation of minors, exploitation of children.
It’s changing. ... It is really rough and tumble.
The lessons you learn are just taking it on. Don’t shrink from it; don’t back away.
Through building that huge coalition, I was able to win with the largest red-to-blue swing in the entire nation.
I certainly think that insiders are always making these calculations.
Furthermore, courts determine whether people have broken the law — not a president acting alone.
We are in a perverse, bizarro land where we’re having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way.