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I thank my friend and colleague, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Mr. Frelinghuysen, for his incredible and tenacious work to bring us this legislation. By the way, all 12 appropriations bills have already been passed by…
Mr. President, I come to the floor tonight to discuss the Senate's investigation into Russia in the 2016 election. Specifically, I have been reviewing for months documents in the possession of the Senate's Intelligence Committee. I regret…
There was not one single hearing to discuss the specifics of the legislation before us today. The legislation before us today involves $10 trillion worth of changes in tax policy. Our colleagues on the other side trumpet this idea that…
Mr. President, the issue with the Cruz amendment is straightforward. The Byrd rule states that the primary purpose of a budget bill is to address spending and taxes. If, on the other hand, you are debating a major policy change and the…
My colleague is making a very important point, and I think it would be great if he would repeat those figures, because all night we have had Republican Senators come to this floor and say: Hey, middle class, just wait until February. Wait…
Absolutely. I think we need to tell America about this because we have won this round, but the Senator and I are going to be back at this fight with our colleagues again. In effect, this would have been Citizens United 2.0. This would have…
Right, that is correct. But there was not one single hearing with respect to the specifics of the bill. I would like to turn, if I could, to this work that my colleague--and I am happy to have partnered with him--has played such an…
Mr. President, I thank Senator Sanders. I want to pick up for a moment on his eloquent points and then pose a question to him about what we will be doing here in a few minutes. Senator Sanders has eloquently spoken to the needs of the…
Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President and colleagues, today the Republican Party officially turns its back on America's middle class. Our constituents believe Congress must require multinational corporations to pay their fair share…
Mr. President, one thing is for sure, this is not the people's business. This is the business of the powerful and privileged. Well, this is really a bank heist. How big is this bank heist? Well, it is about $3 trillion being delivered to…
This bill will be the largest transfer of wealth in our Nation's history, financed by mortgaging our children's future with a mountain of increased debt. It is not really even a policy. It is, rather, a collection of special interest…
It has come to this: Republicans are poised to pass the largest transfer of wealth in our Nation's history, financed by mortgaging our children's future with a mountain of increased debt. What is wrong with this picture? Well, first of…
I appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy, and I appreciate her advocacy on this. This is serious business. There are people--no secret--in the administration and there are people in Congress who would like to undermine this agreement. The…
Mr. President, I introduced the Senate's first strong net neutrality bill back in 2006. I rise today to give my strongest possible condemnation of what the Federal Communications Commission's head, Mr. Pai, is seeking to do, which is to…
Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Minnesota for being such a champion on this issue, and many others, where it is a question of whether we have government of and by the powerful or government by and for the people of the United…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Alisha Bi, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
By now, enough of the harsh reality of the Republican tax plan has been discovered by Americans. That is why most are opposed. They oppose a huge transfer of wealth to those who don't need it from the majority of middle class Americans who…
I thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their great work on this: Mr. Rush from Illinois and, of course, the former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, my friend, Mr. Upton, and our other committee members who put…