There are trillions of dollars in Federal money that depends on the count of the Census.

Let us get back to a granular level where people actually understand what the Census is for.

We have a moral responsibility to ensure that the Federal Government does not forget the people it serves.

Every community deserves to be seen, heard, and invested in, and there should be no erasure.

Extremist conservatives are trying to weaken the Census.

I continue to be incredibly frustrated at the injustice that we have incarcerated individuals being counted according to where they are being warehoused instead of being counted according to the communities that they are from.

the arguments that we are hearing here this morning that immigrants should not be counted is un-American.

This is based on a political desire, one, to identify immigrants in a time and a place when immigrants are being targeted.

We are the Oversight Committee, and our job is to conduct oversight, but it is not to intimidate Federal employees.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Massachusetts.

I rise today to discuss an issue that has been a dominant topic of conversation in this country: artificial intelligence, or AI. Over the past 2 years, generative AI products like ChatGPT have exploded in popularity, while companies have…

We seem to keep falling behind with these 1-year, I think it is called as-needed funding.

When we focus on healing, that is right, we do have to also acknowledge the work of the healer, who is healing the healer?

We are going to have to fight to protect our Federal employees against what we know is going to be an active purge.

The non-partisan congressional Research Service also reports that floods are the most common and costliest natural disasters across the United States.

Now, my district, the Massachusetts 7th, relies heavily on FEMA in times of crisis.

Survivors, in my opinion, deserve not only to heal, but to thrive, and this law moves us closer to that.

We cannot turn the Agency into a political game. Instead, we must ensure FEMA and its workers have the resources, respect, and public confidence they need to continue their work.