U.S. Senate

On Juneteenth National Independence Day, we commemorate the closing of one of our nation’s darkest and most painful chapters, and recommit ourselves to addressing the systemic inequalities and racial disparities that persist in our society.

Workers should be managed by people – not robots.

When we talk about technical innovation, we must put workers first.

The president has spent the last few weeks reaching his hand into the Treasury, stealing from the American people $1.7 billion to be put into a slush fund that he controls to reward his political supporters.

The president is not spending his time right now trying to end this war. Reports are that the president has become bored of the Iran war, and that's why we're in a stalemate.

This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small businesses out of business, if gas prices remain at $5 through this summer.

If we had taken this money that we've spent in just two and a half months of war and applied it to medical research, we would double this year's budget for medical research.

In hearings last week, the administration suggested that the cost of the war is about $29 billion. To most military experts, that just didn't pass the straight face test, the smell test, and in fact, one group of experts actually did an…

Older adults have spent their entire lives contributing to our communities, and they deserve resources to support their health and well-being.

What a disaster that is. And insult to injury, the text says that Iran promises to open the Strait for… 10 years? Nope. Five years? A year? No. Iran says, we will open the Strait of Hormuz for two months toll-free, and then after that…

The Iranians don't have to worry about oil sanctions – they're gone. The Iranians don't have to worry about getting back their frozen funds or transferring them. They don't have to worry about an American military response, because they've…

I just want to make sure we really think through what the underlying motivations are of the people who are making the software before we just assume that their motivations are the benefit of our kids.

What do you think about an idea to make sure that AI technology that is being handed to a teacher go through some expert approval process first to make sure that its actual function is to supplement the teacher's instruction, rather than…

We require a teacher to go through licensing before they are in a classroom. We require most complicated technologies to go through an approval process before they are handed out to the American public.

The AI companies have a veneer of social benefit, but an underlying motivation of addiction and profit expansion.

I don't think there's any way to overhype the damage that AI has already done to our kids' ability to succeed. I'm the parent of an incoming 12th grader and incoming 9th grader, and I've seen already how, at scale, kids have outsourced…

To be clear, any attempts by DOJ to file lawsuits to stop eligible voters from voting, their votes from being counted, or elections from being certified, will fail, but any attempts are still corrosive to public trust and confidence in our…

While the Department’s ongoing voter roll lawsuits are failing across the country, we are concerned that those efforts, which were calculated to compel states into inaccurately purging voters, may be the pretext for more meritless pre- and…

Millions of federal workers would become removable at will—the civil service merit system would functionally cease to exist.

Upholding the final administrative decision would fundamentally alter the balance of power between the Executive and Legislative branches.

Ultimately, our markets, banking system, and economic competitiveness rely on the bipartisan leadership Congress intended for the SEC, FDIC, and EXIM.

To enforce the prohibition of the use of the loan guarantees for settlement activity, the statute further provides that the amount of guarantees available ‘shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount extended or is estimated to have…

There certainly are instances where you need active management,” Wyden said during today’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. “But when people hear that the Roadless Rule is being wiped out, they say nobody's going in…

I urge the Department of Homeland Security and Department of State to uphold the rights of travelers, avoid unnecessary denials, detention, and deportation of anyone attending these games.