The ongoing and racist war on drugs has been waged on black and brown families like those in my district, all the while allowing people like the Sacklers to evade accountability.

There should be no doubt that what the Sackler family has done is absolutely criminal. They are the chief architects of this crisis.

Is it fair to say that tens of millions of Americans do not really have any choice but to rely on your pipeline for fuel?

It is imperative that we hold the Sacklers accountable, but it is also imperative that we build systems that support black and brown people.

For St. Louis, this hearing could not be more urgent. This is a crisis that has touched so many in my district, but its devastation has disproportionately been borne by black families.

Even if the filibuster was gone, there are not the votes to pass it.

I think what Congress should require is that we have a focus on safety and security of this critical asset.

Senator, over time we have evolved as a big player in the fuel business, and it is because of our reliability record and, quite frankly, we are the cheapest cost of transportation for the fuel to those customers.

We should have acknowledged that right from the outset of this devastating crisis.

How can the United States justify sending taxpayer funds to an organization that looks the other way as China implements genocidal family planning programs.

They don`t think they can win on the merits. They`ve got to figure out a way keep other people from voting that, no, they don`t have any merit.

What these state legislatures are doing is they’re trying to strip the secretaries of state in their respective jurisdictions of their power to administer elections, that oath to wake up Joe Manchin, that this is very serious, this is a…

Well, I think that what is going on at the state level, I mean, one of the dirty little secrets about our democracy is that so many of us don`t pay enough attention to what goes on in state legislative races.

had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted ``No'' on the nomination of Anton George Hajjar, of Maryland, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service. Madam President, had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted…

Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, frankly, when he started lying about the election months before the election occurred, when he started conditioning his followers to believe and getting the cable news networks that parrot his propaganda to…

I think if the commission is turned down, it is a political mistake for the Republican Party.

Well, first, I would say it’s probably not early, typically, a grand jury is not called until most of the investigation is completed. This is about presenting evidence to the grand jury and taking some testimony in all likelihood. But…

The smuggling of children that is happening at our Southern Border, and the drugs that are pouring across that border and into States like mine is a serious problem.