
Mr. President, I would just add, that was not what Senator Daines or anybody else on the Republican side said at the time. I was here at the time, and what was said at the time, particularly by Senator Daines is ``I don't think it's right…
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Mr. President, I would just add, that was not what Senator Daines or anybody else on the Republican side said at the time. I was here at the time, and what was said at the time, particularly by Senator Daines is ``I don't think it's right…

I just want to make sure that the record of the Senate is clear here. Democrats don't just decry dark money spending; Democrats have, over and over again, sought to end it. I know this because I was the floor leader on the DISCLOSE Act…

Mr. President, I will shortly ask to have a quorum call by noting the absence of a quorum, but before I do that, I wanted to point out just one issue of vocabulary, if you will, which is that the definition of ``court packing'' has…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island

Mr. President, today I am pleased to introduce the Ensuring Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Seniors Act with Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia. It is critical that a future COVID-19 vaccine be made available to Medicare…

Mr. President, today I am introducing the Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act of 2020 along with my colleague Senator Whitehouse. This legislation seeks to address a longstanding inequity in our Nation's fisheries management system which…

Madam President, I do want to say that we are here at a time when the Republican Party is jamming yet another nominee through bizarre procedural practices onto the Supreme Court. We have examined in the Judiciary Committee some of the ways…

Go ahead, Senator. I just wanted to see if we are going into the vote now, and, if so, whatever procedural steps you needed to take us into the vote, but I yield to the Senator from Maine. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine.

Mr. President, I had the chance to hear Chairman Inhofe's remarks. I speak for many of us when I offer my appreciation for his chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee, for his commitment to our troops, and, in my case, particularly…

There's been a steady Roberts Five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions. And the last characteristic of them is that there is an identical Republican donor interest in those cases, and in every single case that donor interest won…

It's not three schemes but it's one scheme with the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges, and then showing up in court in these orchestrated advocates flotillas to tell the judges what to do.

This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equivalent of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and the precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter.

If they do -- then we will make damn sure we restore it bigger and stronger.

This slapdash hearing targets the Affordable Care Act.

This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equal of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and that the president -- precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter. The big secretive influences behind this…

Mr. Speaker, this has been one of the most productive sessions of the U.S. House in modern history. In less than 2 years, under Democratic leadership, the House has passed more than 600 pieces of legislation responding to the urgent…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, one of the stages of deprogramming cult members is to point out the differences between the cult's ideology and reality. And QAnon is a cult. In an effort to reach some of the…

Mr. Speaker, for most of the past century, the United States has led the world in the promotion of human rights. People from all over the world have long come to America seeking refuge and a better life. And in our best moments, we welcome…