That Trump-Taliban deal did not include a comprehensive cease-fire, did not include any plan for providing protection for Afghan nationals...

Letting multinational corporations shift profits to tax havens leaves a trillion dollar bill for everyone else to pay.

One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals.

the humanitarian toll has been catastrophic as hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions more have become refugees

Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion.

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

I think that the earthquake and the Russians' manipulation of the UNSC authorizations of U.N. agencies tells us that the United States and other major donors and Turkiye need to explore large-scale national aid in a continuum outside the…

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

the United States is the largest humanitarian donor, allocating more than $15.8 billion since Fiscal Year 2012

When it became clear that Afghan nationals who risked their own lives to help the United States in our mission were not being protected from Taliban retribution, was there ever any indication from the Trump administration that they were…

The former President did not say that this was a reasonable step to protect U.S. service members and our Afghan allies; he, in fact criticized President Biden for moving back the deadline.

We must also focus on the fact that many terror groups have begun using the internet to systematically radicalize individuals already living in the United States.

We also need to make sure that, as we discussed in our previous round of questioning, we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan.

One of the things that my understanding did not happen in advance was the Department of Defense did not share its full list of individuals that could be SIV-eligible with the Department of Homeland Security.

The reason that so many of us are concerned about domestic violence, violent extremism, is because over the last 5 years, more Americans have been killed by racially and ethnically motivated mass casualty events than by events connected…

I want every American who served in Afghanistan to know that you made a positive difference.

As Members of the Homeland Security Committee, we have a duty to protect the United States homeland and the people who live here from all threats, foreign and domestic.

we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan for whatever means are at our disposal.