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Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 11:26 a.m., adjourned until Friday, October 14, 2022, at 11:30 a.m…
The best disinfectant really to combat antisemitism is sunlight and accountability.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this continuing resolution. In addition to averting a disastrous government shutdown, this legislation provides critical funding to continue our support for Ukraine, resettle Afghan refugees, support…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, to honor all those suffering and all those who have lost loved ones, and to pay tribute to a remarkable Rhode Islander. Carrigan Nelson was diagnosed with a rare…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman again for yielding. I just want to make clear, once again, that this bill does not appropriate money to the FTC, and I think the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and I will continue to advocate for more…
I say again, this is about supporting competition with some very commonsense proposals that have strong bipartisan support in both Chambers. We can finally let Big Tech know that the time in which they can do whatever they want and…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. H.R. 3843 is a modest yet critical first step to modernizing the antitrust laws. It generates revenue; it makes foreign adversarial interests in transactions more apparent; and it allows more…
Mr. President, literacy opens the door for lifelong opportunity and economic success. But in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a lot of work to do to help kids catch up. The National Assessment of Education Progress results…
Mr. President, we all recognize that a postsecondary education is often the key to a family-sustaining, middle-class job. We also know that an educated workforce is essential to a modern, productive economy. However, our system that relies…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today because Americans are divided. Our public discourse is broken. Instead of fostering open and honest political debate, our flawed information environment creates echo chambers and partisan silos. At times, it feels…
So we take a certain amount of pride in the Brownfields Program around Rhode Island, because it has good Rhode Island fingerprints all over it.
I think it would be obviously very, very alarming for anyone who cares about our democracy and cares about the freedoms that we enjoy as citizens of this great country.
They are in a quest for power at all costs. They`re promoting the big lie. Still, they`re undermining democracy.
If you care about your vote being counted, and us remaining a democracy, you cannot vote for a Republican.
We don`t have to wonder whether or not Kevin McCarthy, if the Speaker of the House, will actually certify an election that Donald Trump ran and lost because we already know he did it.
Madam President, I understand that Senator Thune is next in order on the floor, but not seeing him on the floor, I thought I would take the time before he arrives to echo the terrific remarks of my Judiciary chairman, Dick Durbin. As I…
Mr. President, the place where I left off, when Senator Thune came to the floor, was discussing the extent to which huge floods of dark money had taken control of our Supreme Court. I will just dig into that a little bit further while we…