Senator Richard Durbin's (D-IL) Investing in Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2021 would provide grants toward upskilling workers displaced due to automation.

The bottom line is this: Undermining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau harms Americans' financial security. That is why today I am offering my amendment supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, and its…

Moving quickly to pass a supplemental support package is necessary to capitalize on that opportunity.

Moving quickly to pass a supplemental support package is necessary to capitalize on that opportunity.

Mr. President, over the past 2 years, something profound has taken place on this Senate floor. We have been building one of the most important accomplishments of the Biden era's administration: the confirmation of highly qualified…

Mr. President, today the Senate will vote to confirm Ramon Reyes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Reyes received his B.S. from Cornell University, his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and his LL.M. from…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 73, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $635,000,000) (reduced by…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 3251 Be it enacted by the Senate and House…

We operate on a September 30 fiscal year. Here we are 39 days later, and the majority has yet to even propose a way to keep the government open. Last September, they kicked the can down the road and kept the government open for 45 days. In…

Isn't it pretty clear that that is where we ought to focus our efforts, at least our startup efforts, to deal with this fentanyl crisis?

We were quoting Dickens before. There is a line in Shakespeare. I will let somebody else fill in the rest of the lines. ``It is a tale . . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'' We are the first generation to feel the effects of…

Again, it has to be pointed that there is a level of being completely ridiculous that two straight White men are debating all the issues of equality and equity as if we have faced them all our lives. We can't be the judge or the jury in…

Again, in a moment of self-awareness, we are a bunch of straight White guys talking about social justice. When did a social justice agenda become a bad thing? Again, who am I to say, but weren't the leaders of the civil rights movement…

We now enter the theater of the absurd. Again, for the second day in a row, let's have two White people talk about racial equality in the United States because we know so much about it from having, oh, so much experience, but here we are…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky will be postponed. Amendment No. 60 Offered by Mr. Massie The Acting CHAIR. It is…

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 30 seconds remaining.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed. Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mr. Burlison The Acting CHAIR. It is…

Let me close by saying this. I gave the gentleman from Kentucky an opportunity to clarify his pronunciation of Secretary Buttigieg's name. I have the belief that he purposely mispronounced it to disrespect him. If he wants to correct that…