This Week's Quotes

This was a deliberate choice. The Trump Administration chose to put children’s lives on the line to score some political points.

Suicide and mental health struggles touch every community across our state, and that’s why creating the 988 crisis lifeline to make sure help is there for everyone is one of my proudest accomplishments.

It now has state of the art equipment there to train crews on how to clean up oil spills, so we don’t have to wait two weeks for a submersible. It can be there like in an hour and a half, it’s very close. We’re gaining the expertise there…

We had a lot of members of Congress that were around the country that were saying, ‘Yeah, let them go bankrupt. You know, that’s okay. That’s capitalism, if they go under, that’s it.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you can’t have a manufacturing…

Instead of subverting the EPA to Big Tech’s control, Trump and Zeldin should act in the interest of the American people and hold accountable the industries they are obligated to regulate.

75% of Americans do not want a data center in their backyard, yet Trump’s EPA has chosen to facilitate data center construction at the expense of our health, our pocketbooks, and our bedrock environmental laws.

ICE should stop preying upon our kids at sensitive locations, and in particular, school bus stops.

To me, it's pretty obvious that the intent here, with this new practice of ICE showing up at school bus stops, is to traumatize the children.

Imagine that six-year-old who boarded the school bus, and when he got back from school that day and got off, his parent wasn't there.

For parents in this body, you know how anxious that first day of school is, how kids are just brimming with nervous anxiety about that first day, and you know what that feels like to watch your kid walk onto that school bus.

I am […] just asking my colleagues: can we come to an agreement that school bus stops should be off limits?

But again, Republicans blocked that today.

Their families – and the American people – deserve answers on their deaths. But today Republicans denied them that.

The U.S. Government – including this Administration – has said time and again that our number one priority abroad is ensuring the safety and security of American citizens.

This bill would take an innovative approach to creating job opportunities for young Americans that want a bite at the American dream that has become out of reach for too many students and graduates.

With the looming threat of massive job losses from AI, we have to find new ways to protect Americans from long periods of unemployment and connect them to good-paying, stable jobs.

Long-term unemployment is devastating for someone’s financial security, future job opportunities, and overall wellbeing—and it can take a toll on our economy as well.

Every American who wants to work should be able to find a job. But with AI as a looming threat to our workforce – and nearly two million Americans already unemployed for six months or longer – it’s clear that we need to do more.