I introduced legislation to increase the national baseline wage to $15 per hour.

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about rural hospitals and the need to keep them open.

I think shutting down rural hospitals would be a big mistake.

It was a bad idea on their part to fool around with it.

It needs work. And they don’t have 51 votes.

That’s not my favorite thing.

Big corporations have raised prices on the American people time and again, but they won't give blue-collar workers a raise. They deserve one. Nobody has done more for working people than President Trump, and I'd welcome the President's…

ought to enforce the statute and ban TikTok

I don’t want us fighting a war. I don’t want another Mideast war.

the Senate version of the bill needs a lot of work.

the president was surprised to learn about the policy that would likely lead to lower payments to rural hospitals.

For decades, working Americans have seen their wages flatline. One major culprit of this is the failure of the federal minimum wage to keep up with the economic reality facing hardworking Americans every day. This bipartisan legislation…

The courts have been really clear on this.

This is a major departure from the House framework. This took me totally by surprise.

There's very little danger of Mr. Trump leading the U.S. into war.

This is a whole new system that is going to defund rural hospitals effectively in order to what, pay for solar panels in China?

It’s one thing to support our ally, which we’re doing, and we should do, unequivocally.

Had I been present, I would have voted AYE on Roll Call No. 122. PERSONAL EXPLANATION