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Mr. Scott admitted before the Finance Committee that he signed the illegal subpoena and expressed no remorse for his actions. He appears so unfazed by these allegations of brazen lawlessness that it seems inevitable he will sanction…
Senate Republicans would pay for those new corporate tax breaks by making even deeper cuts to Medicaid, slashing funding for rural hospitals and other essential health care providers and throwing cash-strapped states off a funding cliff.
I am going to talk about a different aspect of the reconciliation bill, but before I do so, my heart is with the people of Minnesota, who have lost Melissa and Mark Hortman. Melissa was speaker of the house. As a former speaker of the…
now, turning to an issue that has to be worked out in our U.S. Senate, is the challenge of having honest budget numbers for the conversation over the reconciliation bill. Back in 1974, the Senate and House were alarmed over the growing…
You can see women getting good jobs to turn their lives around.
If they bring a bill forward to eliminate the Women’s Bureau, we will fight it with everything we have.
When we have this information, it helps us pass policies.
The proposed elimination of the Women’s Bureau and termination of grants that support women in the workforce is a total betrayal of women across the country.
The House Republican version of this bill was already a class war, but Senate Republicans decided to inflict even more devastation on the lives of working Americans to give even larger handouts to the top.
Senate Democrats are going to fight this with everything we’ve got.
my colleagues will remember the phrase ``Senate pay-as-you-go,'' or better known as pay-go. It was initiated by my colleagues across the aisle to say each bill should be paid for, and they created a point of order to that effect. But this…
I have come to the floor to say I am extremely outraged that the executive branch's security team has shoved a U.S. Senator out of a room, has proceeded to put that U.S. Senator on the ground and to handcuff that Senator. This is what we…
Colleagues, we are at an extraordinary time when there is a ``Government For Sale'' sign on the White House lawn. We have never seen this in the history of the United States of America. President Trump is engaged in an extraordinary level…
In my time in the Senate I’ve never seen a Senator treated this way. [Senator Padilla] is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents.
I have now looked at it. If you are following at home, our colleague Senator Padilla was carrying out his constitutional responsibilities to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. At that time, he was physically accosted…
On May 22, I missed rollcall vote No. 277, passage of H. J. Res 88. Had I been present, I would have voted no. Overturning California's Clean Air Act waivers is a climate setback of massive proportions that will delay much-needed actions…
in their big, ugly bill, Republicans are once again trying to rip away clean energy tax credits, one of the most effective job-creating tools we ever had. Thousands of workers, many in rural and coastal counties in my home State of Oregon…