I’m confident that we will have them. The reason I’m confident that we will have them is what you just quoted from Jane Mayer’s expose which we know from polling and that is that a conservative tea partier hates special interests…

I thank Congresswoman Lee, our Speaker pro tempore, for her longtime advocacy on this very important issue. Her leadership on the fundamental question of the role of Congress in matters of war has been unwavering, and we owe her a debt of…

Look, the most important thing to Mitch McConnell is his little reclusive group of billionaire donors. And the most important thing to them is control the Supreme Court that doesn`t have to answer to the voters. So, it will do what they…

Well, the Koch brothers and a couple of other creepy right-wing Republican billionaires have basically built out what in the intelligence community you`d call a massive covert operation.

reserving my right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island

That is why I introduced H.R. 1451, the Emergency Eviction Enforcement Act of 2021, to address self-help evictions during national emergencies.

We owe it to the American people, who have suffered so much in the past year, to take action.

If anything, one of the key lessons of the past year is the government was not adequately prepared to respond to a public health crisis.

In Poland, LGBTQI+ people must live in fear in LGBTQI+ free zones that deny them their very humanity.

Vladimir Putin regularly articulates his disdain not just for equality but the LGBTQI community in Russia but for human rights in general.

Thank you again for this historic hearing. Thank you to the witnesses for being here. Happy Pride.

With the legislation on the Global Respect Act and the GLOBE Act, we can once again demonstrate our commitment to leading on behalf of some of the world's most vulnerable people.

I object. We look forward to having a very healthy and serious debate on this issue in the Armed Services Committee so that we can resolve many claims by both sides about the best way to deal with this. I think, through Senator…

In Hungary, Viktor Orban scapegoats the LGBTQI+ community to continue his assaults on the freedoms of Hungarian.

Without that commitment, we risk not the rights only of LGBTQI people, we risk not just democracy for LGBTQI+ people, we risk not just the safety and security of LGBTQI people, we risk it for all people.

I think a lot of people are watching with some concern that in Ukraine, the ultra conservative far right is retaining a lot of influence and a lot of power, risking not only the rights of LGBTQI people but also Ukraine's democratic future.

Discrimination against any person is intolerable and cannot stand.

the Russian Federation is obviously a global leader in the persecution of LGBTQI+ persons and persuades Nations and individuals within its sphere of influence to adopt their hateful doctrine as their own.