In Missouri, we have this phrase that says: You are all hat and no cattle. That is what this legislation is. It is all hat and no cattle. We just had the Speaker speak right before me and said this piece of legislation is all about getting…

Today I rise to honor Purdue University professor Dr. Larry DeBoer. I had the opportunity to work with Dr. DeBoer as a member of Purdue Extension Service as an Indiana State representative and as a farmer. Dr. DeBoer recently retired from…

may I have additional time? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has 2 seconds.

I am offering an amendment today to reopen our Nation's schools once teachers are vaccinated and the potential for tying COVID funding to that reopening. The evidence is clear, school closures are hurting students, prolonged remote…

We can`t build a better society if members are too scared to stand up and act to reject the white supremist attack that happened right before our eyes.

I cannot sit idly by and allow white supremacy and hatred to have decision making power over our students' futures.

Vote yes on this amendment. Vote on Amendment No. 48 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

The president really tried to make the Republican Party a working-class party, the party of normal, everyday voters, those who don’t have a job on Wall Street, those who don’t want to go start a tech company, maybe those who don’t have a…

The last 2 weeks, working-class Americans have faced a great target on their backs from the new President. By the stroke of a pen--47 different executive orders and actions--he has fired hundreds of thousands of American workers. Mr…

I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, but I would like to remind this Chamber again that the administration's hostility to the energy industry has demonstrated by just the stroke of a pen his executive actions have threatened at least…

I appreciate the gentleman from Virginia. I will remind him that his State government has already received $6.5 billion in bailout money, and they will receive another $9 billion under this plan while that very same government has enacted…

According to your report, at least two parents were told by officers that their children were being taken for a bath. That was the last time they saw their children.

White supremacy is a disease that turns cruel and hateful ideas into cruel and hateful policies that affect people.

I appreciate the gentlewoman from Texas. I will remind her, as we debate how to improve the economy, the administration's hostility to the energy industry, as demonstrated by his executive orders, threatens at least 120,000 jobs in the…

It is essential that we reunite these families together.

Thank you, Chair DeFazio. I appreciate our witnesses being with us today to testify about the impact that the COVID pandemic is having on transportation workers and how we can continue forward through a safe recovery.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

this week, the Senate is engaged in what I personally believe to be a disappointing exercise of, really, partisan political power at the expense of American taxpayers. When it became clear that the Senate was going to be split 50-50--by…