The child poverty rate could be cut in half if Congress would approve the American Family Act.

We believe that if you are on the front lines, even if you are part time, during these dangerous days... you should be entitled to health care.

We also need to make sure that we help all small businesses, particularly our minority, women, and veteran-owned businesses.

They want to have leadership that is going to put us on a new path that addresses income inequalities, social disparities, health outcomes, and job and economic opportunity.

It is important that lawmakers can look outside their windows and see and hear protesters.

We need to continue to have honest dialogue about race and other injustices and, more importantly, act boldly for the change that we need.

Instead, this President acted like an authoritarian dictator, and used excessive force so he could stage a 3-minute photo op.

Unfortunately, those actions taken by the President at Lafayette Square do not bring us closer to solving these problems.

What took place at Lafayette Park stands against our Nation's ideals. Peaceful protestors were exercising their First Amendment constitutional rights.

Unfortunately, the President, in an effort to have an ill-advised and unnecessary photo op, decided to upend the First Amendment rights of peaceful protesters at Lafayette Park by using tear gas and firing rubber pellets on them.

On behalf of Nevada's Third District, I rise today to recognize Mr. Kenny Belknap, an honors and AP government teacher at Del Sol Academy. For decades, Clark County schoolteachers have been forced to work with a tight budget. Like Mr…

I rise in opposition to the nomination of David Wright to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 5 more years. Amidst a global pandemic that has caused the greatest public health crisis in a century and the worst economic…

today, the Senate confirmed the nominations of David Wright and Christopher Hanson to serve as Commissioners on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC. While I am pleased that these nominees will provide the NRC with a full Commission, I…

I rise, along with my good friend and colleague, the senior Senator from Illinois, to stress the importance of what is happening in this country right now and who is on the frontline during this healthcare crisis and why we need to support…

I feel like I would be doing legislative malpractice, however, if I didn't talk about the coronavirus.

I have done the home visits of people, the new mothers, and seen the despair and the conditions.

When I first came here--I got elected in '12--that first session, a number of us lived on SNAP for a week.

Since then, the benefit now, only because we gave it a boost in the last appropriations process, is around a little over $29 a week.