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.

These human rights abuses and the migratory outflows that stem from citizens fleeing these countries demand our full attention in cooperation.

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

The new House Majority has said it will make permanent the Trump tax giveaways, over 40 percent of which go to the top five percent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank both of you for your leadership, and for the participation, and good work and service of all your teams, in making sure that our Capitol can be safe, and functioning well.

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

For as long as we have had big banks, they have had too much power in this town.

Speaker McCarthy authorized the release of more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the awful events of January 6.

I have to give accolades to Senator Chris Van Hollen because what he did not only was authoring the bill, he continued to have steady communications with the labor leaders and Maryland to ask them, 'How is it going?' 'Where are you at?'…

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.

Here's our choice: President Biden's pro-growth investments, which also reduce the deficit by nearly $3 trillion, versus spending cuts deep enough... to plunge the U.S. into a recession.

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

For when you would put up temporary fencing, under emergency situations, which is certainly understandable and justifiable.

I applaud the President and the Biden administration for looking at the issue of how we tax work unfairly relative to wealth.

I want to move on to another bipartisan bill that passed in the last Congress with overwhelming support for retirement savings: Secure 2.0.

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act requires that R&D costs be capitalized and amortized over 5 years for domestic costs.

The IIJA sets up labor management safety committees with equal numbers on both sides, to deal with assaults and safety issues facing the U.S. transit industry.

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