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Why do they protect him? The him in question is, of course, the former President.

It is maddening to witness so many of my colleagues seeming to care more about propping up and protecting a convicted felon than protecting the rule of law.

Two years ago, six Supreme Court justices all nominated by Republican Presidents, decided to overturn Roe v. Wade abolish the constitutional right for women to have an abortion.

yesterday, in an interview with FOX News, Speaker Mike Johnson said that I ``was parroting the talking points of Hamas'' and that I and others ``stand with Hamas and the Ayatollah.'' Well, that, of course, is an absolute lie. As I have…

Regardless of one's opinion of the current Republican nominee, we'd be well served to remember the long and cherished tradition we have in this country of settling our political differences at the ballot box.

We recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which from my count, not a single Republican voted for that.

The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't guarantee access to health care.

Many of my colleagues have tried to repeal Obamacare between 60 and 70 times.

I was in the Chair and objected in my capacity as the Senator from Vermont to the unanimous consent request of the Senator from Arkansas. I would like now to have an opportunity to explain the basis of that. First, the Senator from…

I can't have a conversation about this without naming that we should have Medicare for all.

My colleague, the gentlewoman from Connecticut, has been a champion on this issue, and I am so glad she has convened us here tonight. Over 41 million Americans depend on nutrition assistance to feed themselves and their families, and SNAP…

Reserving the right to object, the question here is about the control by Congress over the District of Columbia governance and the right to self-govern. There has been a tendency in this Congress, and there is debate in this Congress…

I would like to speak in support of the Biden-Harris administration's finalized furnace efficiency standards and against S.J. Res. 58. The Department of Energy's finalized rule has been a long time coming, and we have not meaningfully…

there has been a lot of attention and controversy attached to a recent action by the International Criminal Court, the ICC. The core purpose of the ICC is to prosecute the most serious international crimes--genocide, crimes against…

on November 25, 2023, three Palestinian American students--Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad--were shot by a local resident while they were walking along a quiet street in Burlington, VT. The three friends had gone…

the tens of millions of Americans who are either unable to afford or unable to access the kind of dental care that they need.

We must ensure that the private practice of dentistry is protected.

We've got to understand that if we're going to seriously address the mental crisis in America, Congress is going to have to act and act boldly.