No parent should ever have to go through this loss.

I think that every Member of Congress in every two year term or every six year term, should visit a foreign country.

The vast majority of people who are incarcerated will one day be released, so we should help prepare them for successful reentry.

I was proud to champion this landmark legislation, and I want to give special credit to Senator Grassley.

Donald Trump has habitually used these words to provoke his supporters and he has wielded it, David, many, many times. He has suggested that bad things will happen if he doesn't get his way, and sometimes bad things have happened.

I think it's important to come to understand that country even better and come to understand your home even more.

Secondly, visit a prison. I've done that regularly throughout my congressional career.

Thanks to many of you, especially Senator Grassley and Chairman Durbin, I was spared from spending another decade behind bars.

The results of the First Step Act itself have been overwhelmingly positive.

I think it's important to come to understand that country even better and come to understand your home even more.

This is a very concerning problem, not just for Ecuador, but this is going to increase further pressure on the southern border.

For the information of the Senate, Senator Sanders had a flight delay and is still expected to make the motion to discharge his resolution and speak prior to this evening's votes. Senators should expect votes to start at approximately 6:45…

I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), are necessarily absent.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Political Violence

Blaming the First Step Act for problems that are caused by deliberate prosecutorial inaction is about the same as getting your cavity filled by your dentist one day, and the next day when your basement floods blaming your dentist for the…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Without objection, it is so ordered. Order of Procedure

The violent crime wave sweeping across our country has absolutely nothing to do with the First Step Act.

I ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined today, Senator Sanders be recognized to make a motion to discharge S. Res. 504; and that if the motion is made and upon the use or yielding back of time, the Senate vote in relation…