I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Leg.] YEAS--50 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins…

At a minimum, we need to know why this sudden reduction was necessary, what type of work these employees were doing, and what kind of analysis FAA conducted — if any — to ensure this would not adversely impact safety, increase flight…

Sean Duffy has pledged to support the legislation that was passed that would make air travel more accessible.

in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain touted the now-infamous Munich Agreement as a way to stave off Hitler's Nazi Germany. Prime Minister Chamberlain claimed it would ``secure peace in our time.'' A year later, Hitler…

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 57 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso…

on a separate topic, later this week, Senate Republicans have scheduled a vote on the confirmation of Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI Director. It is a 10-year appointment, unusual by Senate standards, but it was designed to…

It's been the law of the land for decades that members of bipartisan, independent agencies are protected from removal by the president.

But under President Trump, the Justice Department will no longer defend these duly-enacted laws and will instead push the Supreme Court to overturn a nearly-century-old Supreme Court precedent upholding the constitutionality of these…

In three weeks, the public mood has gone from apathy to fear to anger. And I think the next thing in that cycle is action.

It only took 50 days for Hitler to destroy democracy in Germany.

Part of our job right now as Democrats in Washington inside of this is to be Churchillian, very clear-eyed about what the stakes of this moment are.

If Trump's Tax on Working Families continues, grocery and beer prices will continue to rise and the cost of cars, electronics, and appliances will only increase.

I commend President Trump for his steps to close down the Department of Education and to return power back to the parents. For too long the Department of Education has overstepped its bounds, imposing top-down policies that have done more…

President Trump's first Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, once said: If we don't fully fund the State Department and diplomacy abroad, I need to buy more ammunition. Apparently, Elon Musk, a newly minted oligarch with $20 billion in…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Ex.] YEAS--52 Banks Barrasso…

I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, last week, my colleague, Haley Stevens, and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act. I am going to get to that in a minute. I woke up this morning to find that apparently this bill had…

if you go back exactly 20 years ago today, I could tell you exactly where I was. I was a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I was staring at the beige-colored walls. And amidst the pain in every inch of my body, I was trying to…