Investments in public transit systems are critical to getting people back to work.

And that is an existential threat to our democracy.

It is, I still believe it will happen. Because it kind of has to, and I wish they would get on with it.

I rise today to congratulate Bernard A. ``Bud'' Barton, Jr. on his retirement from the Library of Congress and to thank him for nearly three decades of dedicated public service. Since 2015, Bud has served as chief information officer for…

I am prepared to close. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

It is unfortunate that, yet again, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have chosen to operate without input from the minority. Voting for increasing the debt ceiling without proper consideration in the House is simply…

And I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, H. Res. 716 provides for the consideration of four bills, including an irresponsible extension of the Federal debt limit and…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, nays 206, not voting 7, as…

I just want to remind my colleague on the Rules Committee that I stated very clearly that I was talking about House Republicans. But I do want to point out that no Republican in the Senate voted for this debt limit extension in addition to…

I continue to hear from my colleagues across the aisle this notion that debt limit votes are always bipartisan. I just want to point out again, however, that in the last 20 years there were five occasions where the party in power had to…

I literally, Chris, am a few yards away from the Senate floor because we have a series of votes tonight with Senator Blunt`s vote as well as Senator Rounds` vote, 11 Republicans. But I will note, only 11 Republicans voted with every single…

This is the lawyer that wasn`t following a line. He was -- your oath, and he took oath in his job. Your oath is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

we are all gathered here today, the group of us, to make a real case for passing the Build Back Better agenda and what it really means to people back in our home States, as Senator Whitehouse was just explaining about Rhode Island. We get…

as we await the vote this afternoon, I hope we will resolve a number of things today so that we make sure we stand by the full faith and credit of the United States and not let regular people's interest rates go up, the economy go to…

I ask unanimous consent that Senators Merkley, Kaine, and I be able to complete our remarks prior to the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

It`s unbelievable that they brought us to this brink. But in the end, they caved.

What I care about is that we stood united, we had a strategy, and our strategy was to govern and govern with the President of the United States, and we did it.

The pandemic has shown about how we need to connect with family and friends.