People from other countries look at this country as a beacon and as an example.

The president wants to shut down USAID? He can have one of his Republican friends introduce legislation to do that, and it will be debated.

I think it is actually embarrassing.

I thank the Presiding Officer. I want to thank all the folks on the floor from the Parliamentarian's office, the floor clerks for spending the night on this important effort. I want to thank the Presiding Officer and your colleagues for…

on behalf of Vermont first responders and Vermonters who need Medicaid, I vote no. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XII, no debate is permitted during a vote. The Senator will suspend. The clerk will continue to call the roll. The…

We will not stand by and allow this to happen to the nation’s students, parents, borrowers, educators, and communities.

Today I rise in support of my bill, which passed the House last Congress and was the first piece of legislation I introduced in my first term. It is a testament to veterans in Arizona. Specifically, my bill would enable Gila County…

I mean, it is insane.

Congress created the department to ensure all students in America have equal access to a high-quality education and that their civil rights are protected no matter their ZIP code.

Over the course of two weeks, the Trump administration issued sweeping executive orders and sought to broadly and illegally freeze federal financial assistance.

Over the course of two weeks, the Trump Administration issued sweeping executive orders and sought to broadly and illegally freeze federal financial assistance.

I think the overwhelming majority of Americans want a strong, efficient, independent civil service. We can make improvements. I am not here to tell you that we don't have a bureaucracy, that we don't have waste. We do, we've got to work on…

We're moving toward oligarchy. We're moving toward authoritarianism.

I believe that the Attorney General may, in fact, be the most important position in a President's Cabinet, and if it is not the most important, it certainly is the most difficult. Whoever is our Attorney General is a person that serves all…

In my view, the Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected multi-billionaires.

everything my colleague, the senior Senator from New Hampshire, said about New Hampshire and about how people are really struggling to pay their bills, the cost of rent, the cost of housing, home heating fuel in the winter, which has been…

The U.S. spends 2x more per capita on healthcare than any other nation. Yet 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, 68,000 die because they can't afford a doctor, and we pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs. Healthcare is a…

You cannot go into an agency like USAID and essentially fire everybody and get rid of that agency.