These two bills have to be welded together. They cannot be separated.

Vote no to protect California and our democracy

I am here to honor the memory of my friend and the friend of every working person in America, Rich Trumka. We lost Rich this morning, and all I kept thinking is the kind of man we have lost and what that means to all of us. Rich was real…

Jobs training, a hundred billion dollars in job training, apprentices, apprenticeships as well, but also for the American worker, child care, for the American worker, the cares economy, for the American worker all -- you know, universal…

I think it’s incumbent upon all of us and the Senate to work hard through the rest of tonight and the next couple days and get this bill done.

These two bills are honestly transformative for America. It`s an investment that America`s never seen.

I enthusiastically support your nomination and I look forward to your swift confirmation.

I strongly support all of your nominations and look forward to our making that happen quickly.

this was a policy that was great for the Blackstones of the world, great for giant investors, but it shut out families, and it shut out community organizations.

Look, it is always possible in a big administration that there are lawyers who get ahold of things. And I say that with all deference to lawyers who worry about this pace, who worry about that pace, or what happened the last time we were…

We`re going to take a little more time and spend the money that Congress has already allocated, protect the landlords, and protect the tenants. I think what we saw happen is power to the people on this one.

I`m so happy for you. I`m so happy for all of us. When I came here, I never thought about running for elected office. And when I came here, I used to ask myself, does it matter that I`m here. Is there somebody else? And you`ve now answered…

I don`t think so. Look, we`re in the middle of a pandemic. The CDC has narrowed somewhat the eviction moratorium and focused it on places where the threat from COVID is the greatest. And I think that`s exactly what the CDC is supposed to…

So money in these accounts are more like cash in your wallet than like money in a bank account.

This results in more concentration and higher costs for consumers, and it increases systemic risks for our financial system.

That is why I was happy to see that President Biden's Competition Executive order called on the banking agencies to revamp their merger review guidelines to put an end to rubber stamping.

I agree with you on this, and that is why I am very glad to see that the CFPB has begun taking steps to strengthen and to clarify consumer protection rules for payment apps.

Are banking agencies like yours currently required to reject mergers when the resulting bank will be bigger or more complex than our banking rule are set up to handle?