The tax-dodging also blows a hole in our federal budget.

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

This is about the tax injustices that are presently baked into our Tax Code.

I further ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 19; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of…

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

One of the greatest threats to our Nation's homeland security is the rise of far right and racially motivated violent extremism.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Murkowski, to whom I express gratitude for her courtesy. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore…

I think there's an enormous opportunity here.

the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

Simple fairness is reason enough to end this rigged system.

You're providing them better health care.

To run an unjust tax system that creates bigger deficits for the sake of wealthy political influence is not a good place for the United States of America to be.

Senator Whitehouse's proposal and his sponsored legislation shows one promising path forward.

Building off of the success, Rhode Island is currently pursuing an additional procurement for offshore wind that will more than double this capacity and put our state on the path to 100 percent renewable energy by the end of this decade.

This combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.

I think we have a problem of economic injustice.

The January 6 rioters are not political prisoners, they are criminals who attacked police officers.