Mr. President, I rise today to voice my support for the confirmation of my friend and colleague Congresswoman Marcia Fudge to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. I know that she will bring strong leadership to HUD at a…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I got here just a little before I was going to speak, and I heard the gentlewoman from Illinois speak. She talked about flexible work hours. I thought to myself: Who decides what is flexible…

Mr. President, I share my colleague's interest in supporting the men and women at Customs and Border Protection, but this amendment does the opposite. In fact, what it does is strip them of critical emergency support to them and other…

Mr. President, I ask for 15 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I just want to point out that if we want to prevent the spread of the virus, we need to make sure those who get it have a chance to stay home and not spread it among their colleagues around the country. Vote on Amendment No. 1383 The…

Mr. President, I oppose this motion to recommit. This moves us in the wrong direction. We have had bipartisan support recognizing that those who have been convicted of crime, once they paid their price, should be able to participate in our…

Mr. President, this month we are celebrating Women's History Month, which is a time for us to look back on history and recognize all of the barriers women have overcome, honor women's rights champions, and strategize on the work we still…

Mr. President, I oppose this amendment. This is a matter of basic fairness. When we passed the Paycheck Protection Program, it included nonprofits. We didn't have the cost estimates for all the (c)'s. Originally we only included the…

Mr. President, similar to Senator Cantwell, I want to talk a little bit about the small business provisions in the American Rescue Plan and the urgency of passing the recovery act as soon as possible. We need to act in order to deal with…

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 2:05 a.m., adjourned until Friday, March 5, 2021…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9 a.m. Friday, March 5; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

It would be an irresponsible policy to defund the police. We are not for that. Hear me. You can say it over and over and over again. It will be a lie. No matter how well it serves your political purposes, it will be a lie. Mr. Speaker, I…

The amendment proposes to knock out the heart of the Honest Ads Act, so the public won't know who is purchasing ads online. That is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. We need far greater transparency about who is polluting the…

There is an old African proverb that says: Until the lions tell their own story, the tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Who are the lions? They are the victims. They are Black and Brown and indigenous. They have suffered…

I think that is a legitimate debate to have. I think we have been having that debate. Very frankly, I tell my friend from Texas that I think we won that debate. We won it in the courts over and over and over again, but understand that does…

I thank the chairwoman for yielding, and I thank John Sarbanes, my colleague from Maryland, for all the work that he has done and the extraordinary leadership that Zoe Lofgren has done in bringing this bill to the floor last year and…

I thank madam chair, Zoe Lofgren, for her incredible work on this bill. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1, the For the People Act, a bill that was designed to respond to the deep cynicism so many Americans feel when they…

If you get fair elections in place but, when the Representatives get to Washington they get taken hostage by the special interests and still get influenced by the big money, then you haven't solved our problem as the American people who…