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Simple fairness is reason enough to end this rigged system.

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

Letting multinational corporations shift profits to tax havens leaves a trillion dollar bill for everyone else to pay.

This year, I signed an appropriation letter asking for $10 million in additional funding over FY23 levels for North Atlantic right whale conservation.

Letting wealthy business owners avoid Medicare taxes on their full income costs Medicare $250 billion in lost revenue.

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

the fact is that it was Donald Trump's Taliban deal that set the chaos in motion.

The former President did not say that this was a reasonable step to protect U.S. service members and our Afghan allies; he, in fact criticized President Biden for moving back the deadline.

As Members of the Homeland Security Committee, we have a duty to protect the United States homeland and the people who live here from all threats, foreign and domestic.

accountability does not begin in January 2021. There is a larger story here that if we are going to draw lessons for the future and how to do better, we have to be mindful of.

we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan for whatever means are at our disposal.

the humanitarian toll has been catastrophic as hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions more have become refugees

I will take that as a sign that the brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling will end in the interest of national security, although I am not optimistic.

We must also focus on the fact that many terror groups have begun using the internet to systematically radicalize individuals already living in the United States.

the 2023 humanitarian response plan for Syria is only funded at 6 percent

The reason that so many of us are concerned about domestic violence, violent extremism, is because over the last 5 years, more Americans have been killed by racially and ethnically motivated mass casualty events than by events connected…

Let me just say the reason that so many of us are concerned about domestic violence, violent extremism, is because over the last 5 years, more Americans have been killed by racially and ethnically motivated mass casualty events than by…