This should ring alarm bells for every lawmaker because it impacts mass incarceration in each and every one of our districts, and it should stoke the moral outrage of everyone who calls this nation home, as this is a shameful legacy.

I applaud President Biden for granting 78 commutations and pardons last month.

Will you commit not to seek employment or compensation... from any company that has a matter before the Fed?

Ethics rules require you to divest your holdings in stocks and other investments...

I would strongly encourage you to help mount an effort to work on this broader problem.

We have to do work on developing an international agreement to codify these standards.

This is one of the principal recommendations that came out of the Future of Defense Task Force.

I think it is patently obvious to all of us that China and Russia, our principal adversaries, are not going to adhere to these standards.

We need better healthcare for workers that work the hours that they work, and childcare.

We also do need child--I mean, childcare is a huge problem.

We need to put in place for workers to have paid sick time off.

We are the only developed nation in the world that doesn't have high speed rail.

Over the next 10 years we are going to spend $634 billion on modernizing our nuclear arsenal.

Senator Ed Markey has a bill that would address this problem in the simplest and most-tailored way possible.

The point is, we are making serious trade-offs to invest this kind of money in our nuclear arsenal.

Yesterday, our colleagues in the Senate held a key vote on legislation to codify women's reproductive rights that have been guaranteed under Roe v. Wade for the past 50 years. Senators had the opportunity to go on the record to show their…

I just want to disabuse anyone of that notion that they are making more than double that.

we clearly need to be spending a lot more on innovation, not incrementally more, not 10 percent more, but on the order of magnitude of 10 times more.