If Republicans want to come up with a proposal that restores solvency while avoiding benefit cuts, as the standing ovation at the State of the Union promised, Democrats are all ears.

We Democrats know that the ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.

it would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.

I encourage all of us to actually act now, rather than waiting.

Is it smarter for us to fix that now and have 11 years in which we boost the Trust Fund?

the question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined

it would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.

the ultra-wealthy are avoiding those $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

So is that basic structure that he accurately described, is that a flaw or is that a future?

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with the distinguished chairman of the Senate Committee on Budget, Senator Whitehouse. I want to ask for a clarification of H.R. 7032, the Congressional Budget Office Data…

I appreciate the gentleman from Butler's courtesy. It was my pleasure to sit next to Bill Pascrell for 16 years. We came to Congress at the same time. We entered the Ways and Means Committee at the same time, and he was right there every…

Mr. President, in a few minutes, Senators will vote on the Tax Relief for American Workers and Families Act. There has been a lot of discussion and debate this week about it, and I will make just a few final points. Republicans are talking…

Is that something we should change?

I have been hearing, you know, politicians talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America literally my entire life, right, and we are finally doing it, right?

I have been hearing, you know, politicians talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America literally my entire life, right, and we are finally doing it, right?

Are all the charging stations that are going to be deployed under the Inflation Reduction Act going to have a NACS standard?

Why do we never hear about this? If it was the reverse, and driving your electric car was five times more expensive than driving your fuel combustion car, you can bet every fossil fuel company in America would be publicizing that.