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The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act is an important step in educating students and preparing them for the workforce. It increases opportunities for historically underserved students. It strengthens…
Mr. President, I am struck by this conversation as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. My colleague and distinguished Senator from Texas is on the Finance Committee. He knows I know something about writing bipartisan…
Mr. President, it has been a rough day at the office for the Senate Republican healthcare plan, and my take is that it is going to be even tougher over the next few days. There will be a lot of Senate Democrats home, meeting with folks in…
Therefore, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that no motion to proceed to Calendar No. 120, H.R. 1628, be in order until the bill has been the subject of executive session meetings in the Committee on Finance and the Committee on…
I have information that indicates that 135 amendments were considered in the committee and that of those, 14 amendments offered by Republican members of the committee or offered in a bipartisan manner were adopted during the consideration…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Kimberly Koops-Wrabek, Alexander Floyd, Jeremy Jones, and Justin Abbasi be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…
Mr. President, I am very pleased to follow my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Hassan. She said it very well. This is an extraordinarily important part of the debate. A Senate vote on TrumpCare is now days away, and that is the case…
Mr. President, on May 4 of this year, there was a party at the White House, a celebration--a celebration that the House had passed TrumpCare. Indeed, the President wanted to invite people over and say what a great job they had done and…
Mr. President, will my colleague yield for a moment? The majority leader has returned to the floor to hear a unanimous consent request--actually two of them--which we will make very brief and then yield back to the Senator from New Jersey.
Mr. President, I appreciate the remarks from my colleague from Wisconsin, who came here to champion the citizens of her State and the citizens of all of America. As she spoke so passionately about the need to make sure we have affordable…
Mr. President, this weekend, I was out doing townhalls in rural Oregon. I was in Klamath County and Lake County--counties that on any map would be described as solidly red. At my townhalls, people were turning out with one huge anxiety…
Madam President, the American people have spent the last several weeks hearing that the Senate will vote on its new version of TrumpCare by the end of the month. It is now June 19, and the American people are still in the dark about this…
Mr. President, I want to start my remarks on healthcare and what is ahead over the next couple of weeks in this way. For almost 7 years before I got elected to the Congress, I was the director of the Oregon Gray Panthers, which is a senior…
Mr. President, yesterday we had a horrific tragedy here in the capital area. I know I speak for all of my colleagues who are holding the victims of that attack in their hearts and in their prayers: Congressman Steve Scalise, still in…
Mr. President, I have some remarks to make with respect to healthcare that I will offer in a moment. First, I want to address the events of this morning. The shooting that took place in Alexandria today was a horrendous, despicable act of…
It is always a privilege to share the Chamber with my fellow Northwesterner. We have gone through this in the Ways and Means Committee with one of the least productive hearings I can remember, and that says a lot in my 10 years on the…
There may be some people that will be swept up who had gotten care that they didn't, but there will be people who will be swept up who were entitled to care who could not jump through the hurdles or, at a minimum, had their care delayed…
Mr. President, climate disruption is a significant concern for the health of our planet. It is affecting everything from our agriculture to our economy, to our forests, to our world's glaciers, to our ice sheets, and, certainly, to the…