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Mr. President, I have 14 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the…
Madam President, I rise today in support of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promises to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, also known as the Honoring our PACT Act. Our Nation asks a great deal of our servicemembers and…
Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act. Before the Emanuel church shooting, before the Uvalde, El Paso, and Parkland shootings and so many others, shooters showed warning signs or…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support reinstating the assault weapons ban. The AR-15 has become the weapon of choice for shooters looking to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible. Researchers…
We must protect social security for future generations.
Madam Speaker, almost 6 years ago I sat down right here on this floor with the late, great John Lewis and so many colleagues to protest the Republicans' unwillingness to take up gun safety legislation after the Orlando shooting at the…
Madam Speaker, I rise today to plead with my colleagues to support H.R. 7910, the Protecting Our Kids Act. We gather just days after an 18-year-old mowed down 19 schoolchildren and two of their teachers with an AR-15. Just days earlier, a…
Mr. President, this week marks the 250th anniversary of the first blow struck in the American Colonies' struggle for independence from the British Crown. I come to the Senate floor every year to commemorate this moment because it took…
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of S. 3823, the ``Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act.'' This important bipartisan, bicameral legislation introduced by my colleague, Congressman Neguse, will ensure that our…
Mr. President, on behalf of myself and Senator Inhofe, as chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the cochairs of the Senate Army Caucus, it is our honor to pay tribute to a great leader and exceptional…
But we have to do more, I think, than just simply bump up the Pell Grant every year.
I had the distinction of succeeding Senator Pell. No one could replace him.
In the 2021 State of Our Schools report, it was found that there was an $85 billion per year gap between what school facilities need to be brought up to standard today.
Something is fundamentally broken when the vast majority of Americans are demanding this action, and the Republicans in the Senate still prevent it from happening.
The American people are begging their elected officials to do something to protect them from the scourge and the ravages of gun violence in our country.
No one should vote for a candidate who is not committed to doing everything in their power to reduce gun violence in this country and to pass commonsense gun safety proposals.
Spare me the bullshit about constitutional rights. You know who didn't have due process? You know who didn't have their constitutional right to life respected? The kids at Parkland, and Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, and Buffalo, and the list…