the next President will appoint the FDIC Chair that we are questioning the conduct of today.

I want every worker to know, we don't just care about your labor, we give a damn about your lives.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. This month marks 2 years since extreme MAGA Republicans dismantled Roe v. Wade, subjecting American women to reproductive oppression not seen for half a century. For the other side of the aisle, it is…

thank you to my partner Senator Hirono from Hawaii and to all of the Senators who today are going to lead on this issue of ensuring that people in the United States have access to contraception. I am joined by Senator Smith from Minnesota…

I rise today because reproductive freedom is under attack. In 2022, Donald Trump's far-right Supreme Court took away the constitutional right to an abortion, completing the Republican Party's decades-long plan to overturn Roe. In some…

this resolution threatens fundamental life sciences research. Research is medicine's field of dreams from which we harvest the findings that give hope to families. Over 1 million people died from COVID-19, and tens of thousands of…

Cutting Social Security doesn't solve the problem. It exacerbates it.

It is time that we advance legislation that increases Social Security benefits to reflect the true cost of living that they experience and does so by making the wealthiest Americans, who have done extraordinarily well, ... pay their fair…

It is extremely disappointing that this White House would choose to double down on the previous administration's harmful and flawed immigration policies.

What do you have against giving 23 million Americans a tax cut?

The choice is yours. If you got a better idea, put it out there.

Thank God for President Biden saying, hey, let's pay for this.

I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. As the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 5403, the so-called CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. At the expense of U.S. global…

The Framers of the Constitution understood the importance of a strong and stable national currency, which is why Article I, Section 8, grants Congress the exclusive power to coin money and regulate its value. Congress must not forfeit this…

The climate crisis is real. The planet is not warming, as many experts have cited. The planet is burning.

Investing in electric vehicles is good for the environment. It is good for people's pocketbooks.

I just want to, you know, put a stake in the ground, put a flag in the ground on that for you to take a good hard look at that.

Before we began this Special Order hour, I approached Congresswoman Hayes to thank her for her leadership in pulling this together. She said: You are welcome, but I am so sorry we have to do this at all. I am also sorry, as are we all. It…