We need to be ready for the fight ahead and redouble our efforts, and be unified.

If this CR becomes law, Musk and President Trump will be able to fire thousands of employees at the Social Security Administration.

President Trump began breaking the law on day one of his term, and immediately pardoned hundreds of violent criminals upon taking office.

This is wrong, cruel and completely unnecessary.

Where is Elon Musk? I'm sure he's a genius and is a very credible person because of the wealth he's accumulated.

The funding freeze must end, and these draconian cuts must be stopped.

Decisions about the investments we make cannot be entrusted in one single officeholder.

This CR takes away any remaining restraints and guardrails from the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle our government.

I implore our colleagues in the Senate to stand up for the American people and our Constitution, reject this CR and put a freeze on this blank check.

President Trump was elected because the American people wanted help with the cost of living.

Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.

my thanks to Senator Thune for yielding and the Presiding Officer for presiding over the balance of the day. I am here with sadness--not for the first time and, tragically, not for the last, I fear--because I am here to speak to the…

Due to obligations, I was unable to submit a vote for the Motion to Recommit, Roll Call No. 69, on HR 1968. Had I been present, I would have voted NAY on Roll Call No. 69. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the…

If our new reality is that a president can disappear an opposition protester, with no charges filed against then, we are not America any longer. Today it’s Mahmoud Khalil. Tomorrow, it’s me or you.

but we did learn in this legislative hearing that, in fact, there is no plan. The 80,000-worker target for firing is in the absence of any plan. It is the target. It is the goal. It is the intention: Fire now, plan later. No plan, no…

Richard is providing this gift, which is a safe place to talk about these issues and help on terminology and language.

Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.

We’ve been on this journey since the 1980s to lionize the individual and marginalize the common good, and I think that’s been really harmful for men.