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ask yourself why. Why are we here at 3 a.m. fast-tracking this bill? This bill is nothing to be proud of. It is best to pass it in the night when most folks are asleep. What kind of a nation are we when leaders choose to take food away…
I want to align myself with the comments made by the Senator from Connecticut and the Senator from Illinois. The Constitution is pretty straightforward on this. It is pretty basic: [N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under…
I want the Senator from Idaho, the esteemed chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to know that when it comes to condemning Hamas for what it did on October 7, for what it has done to the Palestinians in Gaza on an ongoing basis, I…
all of us are extremely concerned--and I mean all of us: Senator Risch and all the Republican colleagues and me and all of the Democratic colleagues--about the suffering and famine that are upon the folks in Gaza. Today, I am here to offer…
Just this morning, President Trump said that the Republicans aren't cutting anything meaningful in their budget. What a thing to say. What a shocking thing to say when these cuts will hurt so many Americans. I am having a really hard time…
Raising the SALT deduction is a bailout for Democrat Governors—paid for by red states with low taxes.
Trump cannot accept a $400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar. Not only is this farcically corrupt, it is blatantly unconstitutional.
Trump's war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer.
Stand up for freedom of the press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to this dangerous move to authoritarianism.
Settling the Trump lawsuit would only embolden him to shake down, extort, and silence CBS and other media outlets.
I say to Shari Redstone: Enough is enough. Do not capitulate to Trump's attack on a free press.
I was a history teacher, and I know that we have to be documenting this moment. When we look back, I don't want anyone to say that we didn't know what was happening. Trump adviser Stephen Miller and perhaps the most joyless man in America…
If you are making $16,000 a year, you know what? You can’t afford that 35 bucks.
We’re going to be looking at $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and to the Affordable Care Act.
I am a history teacher so I know that we have to do everything we can to document what is happening right now because we are at a very dangerous moment, and it requires courage from every single one of us. Here is the truth of it: This…
it's hard, in many ways, to see how we could do worse.
You've got a Health and Human Service Secretary in Robert Kennedy who is on a destructive rampage, tearing apart institutional structures that have been in place to help us with the science and research and delivery of healthcare in this…