It is unacceptable. The United States stands alone as the only Nation that sentences people to life without parole for crimes committed before turning 18.

We cannot effectively approach desperately needed criminal justice reform in this country unless we address how the current system is affecting our youth.

I want to highlight and commend Senator Collins and my colleagues in a White House for the IMAGINE Act which is designed to improve materials and techniques for construction.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Five years ago, 49 people were murdered in a violent, hate-filled, mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, the Pulse nightclub. I thank Congressman Soto for his leadership and our colleagues…

I think we have no greater responsibility than the care and well-being of our children in this country.

We are at an inflection point where we can no longer sit on the sidelines and hope and pray things get better.

The bipartisan Medicaid Reentry Act allows inmates within 30 days of release to enroll in Medicaid.

I think any notion that this was a coincidence or a fluke is living in a dream world.

the U.S. had not only been weak, but it actually tried to weaken proposals that everybody else was trying to agree to.

We need to double down if we are not going to have a military presence there, especially to make sure that those aid dollars are going where they're intended and not be diverted for corrupt purposes.

The Chinese economy is more than three times as carbon-intensive as the U.S. economy.

A Senator of the United States is an ambulance converging point for pressures and counter-pressures of high, medium, and low purposes.

I do have concerns about how this withdrawal decision was made and I am very worried about al-Qaida reconstituting and how the Taliban treat women and minorities.

I pushed very hard on the Department of Justice to make sure they were not just challenging the people who came through the windows and doors of the Capitol but looking upstream to who might have been behind it.

Of course, Rhode Island is the offshore wind capital of America.

the Biden administration wants to keep families in housing projects.

Should the local jurisdictions and States where these systems reside have any responsibility to pay for these systems? Evidently not, according to my colleagues.

. . . we need to continue to work on FATCA compliance. It's too bad that we couldn't put an extra `T' on it. Then it would say FATCAT, which would be such an appropriate acronym for it.