No greater asset than our Coasties. So, thank you so much.

It should not be controversial that the public interest determination should consider the most up-to-date science and best practices.

tomorrow, the Senate will consider legislation that would send critical resources to secure our borders. This legislation was forged by serious bipartisan negotiations, but when it first came to the Senate floor this past February as part…

We delivered on a commitment to do what we can to try to lower costs for Americans when it comes to their health care.

We are seeing... all of these job sites opening up factories to create batteries for electric vehicles.

I am really pleased to be here on the floor with my colleagues who just want to get something done on the border. I mean, how long have we talked about this? Senator Kaine talked about 2013. I was here as well. It was an amazingly…

What I am concerned about is data showing that in multiple union elections, less than a majority of employees participated.

Unfortunately, as Mr. Alcorn stated so clearly in his testimony, there are cases where information is being misrepresented.

We cannot allow, no matter who is the President of United States, to use that office for political motivation to attack many of the Federal employees.

no matter who is in the White House, which should never ever, ever, no matter anybody in this room, should never ever be allowed to just fire any Federal employee.

I mean, even when we submit these into the record, it is something incredibly, like, daunting and scary to think that a President of the United States can fire an EPA Federal employee that is out there literally trying to provide clean air…

The National Labor Relations Act was created by Congress to provide a level playing field between employers and union leaders.

for 15 months, under the guise of investigating the pandemics origins, my Republican colleagues have been probing our Federal scientific and public health institutions.

When a crisis unfolds, our government needs to be able to respond quickly.

I take seriously the allegations of unauthorized disposition of NIH email records by you, Dr. Morens.

your conduct shows a blatant disregard for accountability to the taxpayers who fund NIAID's work, and, quite frankly, it really is disturbing.

I thank the gentleman, my wonderful colleague from Illinois, who continues to speak truth to power, especially around police violence. Mr. Speaker, George Floyd's life mattered. We all know and keep chanting, Black lives matter, but we…

we cannot allow, no matter who is the President of United States, to use that office for political motivation to attack many of the Federal employees that act in a very nonpartisan way.