If you engage in an unethical practice, if you cover up a serious problem, you should be fired, period. It should not be that difficult.

I unequivocally condemn Hamas attacks on Israel and the escalating violence that has followed.

I was struck by the central role that Romania has played in countering Putin's aggression.

I announce that the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) is necessarily absent.

I've called on my colleagues and the administration to use our collective power and urge for a cease-fire.

Words we use to address the threat to our Nation do matter. They hold power.

For America you beat a bully before he gathers steam and that is what we are doing now.

This inability to govern has prevented us from doing our work for three weeks, despite an urgent need to keep our government operating, address the child care cliff, and stand by our allies.

The more effective approaches to dealing with trauma and how it impacts, would that be a beneficial activity for us to put more emphasis on to help reduce poverty?

So the more comprehensive our approaches are, the more likely we are to see positive results.

For years, structural racism has led to much higher rates of child poverty among children of color, especially Black children.

It is shameful, quite frankly, that this Congress is not taking strong, immediate action to end poverty, using policies proven to work.

The greatest country in the world should not have as many children who are poor and in poverty.

Every day we delay action, poverty poisons the future for millions of our children and for our nation.

Democrats stand ready. I stand ready to set an aggressive child poverty reduction target and hold ourselves accountable to restore income supports to strengthen families and cut child poverty.

I believe that child poverty is a moral emergency. It is inexcusable that children in the wealthiest nation in the world are growing up in poverty.

on September 11, 2001, even while smoke was still billowing from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, I knew deep within me that that attack on American soil would change not just my Nation's future but my own, and it did. I rushed back to the…

It is that dream of peace that I continue to hope for.