Today's Quotes

The Legislative Branch bill underfunds key work to support oversight of the Executive Branch, and it underfunds important efforts to keep the Capitol complex safe.

There’s trade-offs to be made. Getting these amendments done in a way that can hold the coalition together, I can play a very critical role in that.

I’ve been kind of the voice with industry, and there’s a lot of conflict with industry.

When every pipeline, transmission line, power plant and industrial project is treated as something to stop rather than something to build responsibly, the costs do not disappear.

Investigate whether intelligence analysts have been pressured to write reports that align with the objectives of senior officials in the Trump administration

Examine donations made by defense contractors to Trump construction projects

Get this thing done in the lame-duck because it’s, you know, it’s going to be a very different 702 that gets reauthorized in the first quarter of next year

We can do that in this country and be successful, and the American people are waiting for that courage that we talk about to translate into action that they can feel.

There is no affordability without accountability. Point blank.

What we saw during the midterm elections was a rebuke on Donald Trump, Republicans, and their horrifying policies of corruption, hate, deportation, intimidation, retaliation, and they’ve given us a mandate for bold change and justice.

Democrats must meet the moment, and meeting the moment means demanding justice for the horrors that people have lived, for the health care that they have lost, and the necessities that they can’t afford.

I would call his bluff. I would have Democrats pass the most comprehensive immigration reform bill that we possibly can, bringing out of the shadows the most people possible, and then send it to him, and have him decide what he wants to do…

These are the exact same thing.

Can we use this occasion to put to rest the absolutely idiotic question that so many people in the media are asking about whether we are going to pursue affordability questions and economic questions or we’re going to investigate…

It would be a tremendous breach of faith with the people who voted for us to spend the next two years ahead of the 2028 election railing against Trump and waiting for a future Democratic trifecta to deliver meaningful change.

In the most competitive 2026 races, in blue, purple, and red states, including places like Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina, Democrats won — and won big — by recognizing Americans’ economic pain, denouncing Washington corruption that has…

Are we going to go down a dark, dangerous road to socialism and communism, which is a deadly road?

[T]hat is going to be the contest in the days ahead.