Wall Street banks spent the ensuing years lobbying to roll back safeguards we passed in the wake of that crisis.

I want to underscore some of the issues that had been raised by my colleagues.

I just want to make a mention of the Red Line in Baltimore. As we all know, this was a big priority of the Maryland delegation for a long time.

The guidance from the IRS is absolutely critical in regard to the allocation issue.

Protecting environmental defenders is about much more than just the Amazon.

We must defend democracy when it is under attack around the world.

I applaud you and the President for going even further in this budget, in terms of saving costs for seniors on Medicare.

I certainly hope he will do that in partnership with his allies, the United States and others.

If this one lock, which is the only large functioning lock we have went down, this would be devastating to our economy.

A six-month unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would result in 11 million jobs lost.

We certainly don't want to do what we again are hearing from House proposals, raise the age of Social Security to 70 or Medicare to 70.

What they would be able to do is make nearly every family worse off and send our economy into a tailspin.

We are grateful for Senator Van Hollen, the chief sponsor of the Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act.

Well, we are going to push them because the uneven implementation of this around the country is concerning, especially in light of the ongoing risks to transit workers.

What they would be able to do is make nearly every family worse off and send our economy into a tailspin.

The railroads think that a train that is more than two miles long only needs one crew member.

According to a letter Senator Wyden and I received yesterday from the Congressional Budget Office, the Republican promise to balance the budget in ten years... is, in a word, impossible.

We were, of course, all alarmed by the images of the attacks on democracy in Brazil following Bolsonaro's exit.