U.S. Senate

I beg my young students in Illinois to start there, and counselors to do their job and discourage kids from getting involved with these for-profit schools.

I… warned them, be careful not to let your students be lured into these for-profit colleges and universities.

That’s life changing news for nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers, who will receive $23 billion in relief after being misled and defrauded by for-profit colleges.

What you don’t know is that although only eight percent of [American college students] go to for-profit colleges and universities, 30 percent of all student loan defaults are the students from these same schools.

It is unconscionable that ATF, whose mission is to protect the public from violent gun crime, would even begin to consider regulatory changes that could result in such deadly outcomes.

To upend longstanding federal gun violence prevention regulations in a manner that contravenes commonsense federal firearms laws like the GCA and the Brady Act based on an inadequate justification and incomplete cost-benefit analysis…

With these proposed revisions, ATF is rewriting the regulations that have been used and relied on for decades to help keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who are not allowed to have them for mental health reasons under 18 U.S.C…

This paperwork requirement of people in low-income categories is an onerous responsibility… as long as they are trying in good faith to comply with the law, I don’t think we should deny them the $6 a day.

We [Democrats] want to support the Farm Bill—I certainly do. But I want to make sure that I’m fair to my State and fair to the people who are receiving SNAP benefits who are being disadvantaged.

I have seen a few farm bills… The decision was made in the 1960s to blend together food and nutrition programs [to the Farm Bill]… That winning coalition has paid off ever since. We need it again and it has to be part of this SNAP…

It is incumbent upon DOE to take a wide view of and responsibility for the health of our nation’s energy systems.

Your partisan attacks on Illinois are just as likely to raise prices or extend repair timelines in Wisconsin, Indiana, or Iowa the next time they face a tornado or flood.

The grants you terminated would have assisted in the deployment of these technologies and created hundreds of jobs.

As if this brazen politicization of DOE’s grant-making process were not bad enough, these cancellations also took aim at our constituents’ wallets.

Birthright citizenship is the law of the land, which the Supreme Court just upheld in June. But Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant agenda will never miss a chance to sow doubt and fear in immigrant communities. The Trump…

I am pleased to have helped co-lead this timely legislation and encourage the House to take it up immediately when they return from their August recess.

I urge the National Park Service to release the site's FY26 operating funds without further delay.

That makes no sense and is unacceptable.

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, it’s more important than ever to preserve our country’s rich history.

We’re committed to working with industry, with universities, with all the elements of our national power to bring this about.

We also, under the leadership of someone who needs to be recognized, our Under Secretary Jacob Helberg – I don’t know if Jacob is here, but Jacob has been phenomenal.

We appreciate your presidency valuing this when other presidents did not.

He’s handling the economy so poorly, with the chaos, the inconsistency, the lack of paying attention to the facts, the lying.

The only person who ought to lose their job right now is Donald Trump.