my priority would be for us to work to find ways to really improve the confidence in our elections by working to appropriately clean up the lists.

I am concerned that, when it comes to electric vehicle charging, rural communities may again be left behind.

Equity must be part of our approach to electric vehicles.

I could guarantee passage if my Republican friends would just work with us, not just throw one-liners at us but just work with us.

It isn't right that someone in our country should have to choose between food and medicine.

Over 95 percent of rare diseases do not have any treatment at all.

95 percent of rare diseases will not have a treatment. Colleagues, let's redouble our efforts.

We must end the racist exclusion of farm workers from FLSA's overtime protection.

By excluding jobs held by Black and Brown workers from basic worker protections, the FLSA inserted institutional racism into Federal wage and hour law.

I thank Representative Grijalva for his leadership fighting racist exclusion of farm workers from overtime.

I know this because I have lived it. In fact, my mother and grandmother were domestic workers.

We are going to do this using the traditional statutory authority that we have, and we are going to go through very transparent rulemaking processes that will engage all of our stakeholders.

We need to keep right on pressing on this air quality issue.

We cannot regulate our way out of the situation we find ourselves in.

This was the first time a newly elected President has ever fired the NLRB General Counsel.

We need both independence and integrity in the General Counsel's Office.

This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward.

Madam President, I want to thank my colleagues from North Dakota, Ohio, Wyoming, and Iowa, who have spoken before me, and my colleague from Kansas, after me. I think Senator Portman ended his statement by saying that we have heard the…