we're about to reach the point where the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles will be less than internal combustion vehicles.

Democratic backsliding isn`t restricted to distant lands. Right here in the United States of America, we just saw a sitting president deny the clear results of an election and help incite a violent insurrection at the nation`s Capitol.

The fact is autocrats and aspiring strong men have become emboldened around the globe. They're actively subverting democracy. They're undermining hard won human rights. They're ignoring international law.

Democrats have a message and they need to be able to tell that message.

The Democrats have to go out there and tell the story, but ultimately the voters decide on this thing.

I think the Biden administration has overcome some extraordinary circumstances. COVID, the economy, and now most recently Ukraine, and they have handled the policy right.

Putin has always been ruthless against his own people, as well as others. He has always been somebody who`s wrapped up in this twisted, distorted sense of grievance and ethnic nationalism.

Inflation is a real issue. A lot of it is having to do with the COVID and supply chains. And now, Putin`s gas tax, essentially, by virtue of his invasion of Ukraine. But the underlying economy, there`s a good story to tell. Democrats have…

If we can make democracy function where you look at this room and you have people from every corner of the globe, if we can figure out how to live together and treat each other with dignity, and respect, then others start feeling like…

I want you to imagine a world where the Republican Party praised the President of the United States for raising the price of oil by 24 percent. That sounds crazy, right? Well, that is exactly what happened 2 years ago this month when Trump…

this Capitol Building has served as the backdrop for some of the most notable moments in America's history. In this building, wars have been declared, peace treaties have been signed, and the march toward progress has either moved forward…

an hour or so ago on the floor of the Senate was an amazing sight. It has been a long, long time since I have seen the Galleries full. COVID-19 kept us apart. I missed it. I didn't realize how much until those full Galleries were here to…

I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent.

I listened to the Republican leader speaking about the Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is coming before the Senate either today or tomorrow, we hope, for a confirmation vote. We have solid support for her nomination…

your industry has referred to your opposition to greenhouse gas emissions reduction as energy choice legislation.

In a grid that does not have--that does not depend on 33 percent efficient fossil fuel plants--and, yes, that is the grid we have had since 1957. It is not the grid we want to give our children. We owe them better.

We cannot look our children in the eye and say that we are doing what we have to do to provide a sustainable planet unless we electrify massive parts of our grid and decarbonize the grid.

I have a deep and longstanding love affair with energy efficiency, and I appreciate you all being here to support it.