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Instead of going to the President to abuse his powers, we should have worked with committee members on common-sense reforms.

We understand that last month, the White House essentially caved to political pressure from the left and unilaterally extended the eviction moratorium, even though they knew it was unconstitutional for President Biden to assume this power…

I just doesn`t want to vote for the infrastructure bill, doesn`t plan to vote for the infrastructure bill. Climate be damned and all the rest of it, too.

For God`s sakes of living, how difficult is this to understand? Why in the world do we have to come up with these crazy ideas, and they`re crazy ideas, that the vaccine has got something in it and it`s tracing people wherever they go? And…

That`s why this issue about how Manchin and Sinema are going to vote is so important.

I think it`s the majority saying, we have seen enough. It`s time to hit the reset button.

The House passed both of those currently stalled by the Republicans in the Senate with an assist from conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.

Millions of jobs remain unfilled across the country and rising inflation rates are now an unavoidable tax on the wages and income of every American. These are not indications of an economy that requires trillions in additional spending…

Tonight, I`m again voting to move that process forward because I believe that we need to come together, to restore people`s faith in the integrity of our elections. I urge my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, to allow us to debate…

Senator Manchin's concerns about the price tag of this budget package of $3.5 trillion is certainly a lot.

I actually think from a long term political standpoint, it`s also deadly, I don`t see how this is going to work in their advantage if they were to become the Republican nominee.

I`m not surprised I knew it would happen because I thought when the President took it under his own wing, and knew how important this was, it was one of his missions to make sure he could show that he has those bipartisan stripes.

I don’t think elected officials should be having private meetings in mancaves that the public don’t know about.

I am in support also as a ranking member. Vote on Amendment No. 2358 The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Hearing no further debate, the question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 2358) was agreed to. The ACTING PRESIDENT…

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am in full support of using the 15-minute deadline that we have anyway and actually enforcing this. There is a lot of interest in this bill, as there should be. There are a lot of amendments pending. We want…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would just like to add my voice with the chairman of the EPW Committee. I think, in consideration of everybody's time, we have got four more amendments and maybe more. We could roll through these if we would just…

Although the news coverage would indicate that this week is Infrastructure Week, our Committee seems determined to make it Science Week.

I don't have an objection. I just wanted to say to the--to Chairman Carper here and others in the bipartisan group and all of us here: We are ready to get this thing started. This is a great way for Members to say what they like and what…