And I will be brief. Social Security, we know, is a bedrock of our middle class. It is retirement security that Americans pay into and earn over a lifetime. You pay in for 40 quarters. You pay in for, essentially, 10 years. You have earned…

I have enjoyed watching Senator Fetterman and Senator Casey and working together in the mentoring and seeing how productive that has been for them in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Marcus Aurelius said: Humility is the foundation of all…

Thank you, Senator Cassidy. I thank Senator Cassidy and his incredible staff for the work that they have done with the Cleveland Connection. And I just appreciate so much, as I leave the Senate, the work that Senator Cassidy and I have…

Imagine winning a war for a country that didn't yet exist and had no government. That was our beginning. What our Founders did have was freedom-loving people who believed that our rights come from God. There were 13 independent Colonies…

We learned late this afternoon that the Republican leadership of this House has derailed the important appropriation bills to fund the Government of the United States for the fiscal year that actually began October 1. It has been delayed…

I have one final topic this evening on the question of American energy independence, which is so vital to our domestic security and our international security. We well know, when the United States became dependent on imported oil, we fell…

We are seeing foreign adversaries single-handedly trying to influence our election outcomes.

I am here at desk 88, honored to address my family and friends and Ohioans of the Nation. I remember well my first speech 18 years ago. Illinois Senator Barack Obama was presiding over the Senate. Following parliamentary norms--and perhaps…

A whole lot of voters in Ohio see the Democratic Party as a bicoastal party, and those days need to be behind us.

For half a century, the stock market soared, executive compensation exploded, corporate profits have risen dramatically, worker productivity has gone up, but workers’ wages have been comparatively flat and costs keep going up.

Until we solve that fundamental problem in this country, until hard work is valued, until everyone has a path to the middle class and the stability and security of a good-paying job, our work in this body — my work as a private citizen…

I’m going to stay engaged.

My goal is to make the Democratic Party the party of workers.

That was my last speaker on the bill. I am prepared to close if my friend, the gentleman from Florida, is. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee has been very busy this past Congress making sure that we get broadband deployed across this country. This piece of legislation will help make sure that…

As I mentioned earlier on the previous bills, the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the Committee on Energy and Commerce has been moving legislation to make sure we get broadband deployed across this country. As the speakers…

I have no other speakers, if the gentleman is ready to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

This bill is very essential because, again, as we have seen, broadband is absolutely essential for everyday Americans. As we think about what happened during COVID, Americans were shut in, and they relied on broadband for everything from…