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They’re not looking plainly at the reality.

This bill is a moral obscenity, and I’m stunned that only a few senators on their side of the aisle have even been willing to speak to the impact it will have on their states, their constituents, their rural hospitals, their families…

I think it’s a moral obscenity and it is violence in the sense of what it will do to many families by denying them healthcare when they’re sick, by denying them food, when their children are hungry, denying our seniors critical care in…

If you hurt these hospitals some will close, some people will have to utilize emergency rooms even more. … This is political stupidity; it’s political suicide.

I don’t like it. We had hit a sweet spot with our bill.

10 years ago today, our Nation made a remarkable step toward equality with the legalization of gay marriage. This was a day that came after decades of advocacy by individuals and organizations across the country, including Garden State…

Today the Supreme Court chose to cast transgender children in the shadows.

I thank Mrs. Ramirez for convening this very important discussion. I will talk about something that is a little bit of an extension of this, but I do want to remind people that I visited Delaney Hall Detention Facility in the State of New…

Voters want leaders who understand their daily struggles and are willing to throw out the old playbook to solve them.

I will say, as we are awaiting his arrival, life is the first human right. If we don't have that, every other right--religion, speech, every assembly--falls. Republicans are trying to on our side and we need friends on the Democrat side to…

3 years ago today, the infamous holding of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were reversed by the Dobbs decision, brilliantly written by Justice Samuel Alito, who hails from my State and from my home county, joined by the…

Bove does not belong on the federal bench.

I know in my district that foreign direct investment is important in creating jobs. I would certainly say that nationally this is an important piece of legislation. For that reason, I urge my colleagues to support it.

This is against type for him. I'm sure it was a difficult decision. I think his analysis was, he cannot live with a nuclear weapon in Iran, and Israel did all of the heavy lifting.

The bottom line is here: We have no transparency. ... You feel no responsibility to Congress whatsoever, and you just continue this ideology that’s anti-science, anti-vaccine.

You have made a number of major decisions about vaccines. And … there’s been no public comment process or public accountability on that either. What are you afraid of?

I just really think people are going to die as a result of your actions and Congressional Republican actions.

The thing that disturbs me most is this anti-science agenda.