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It’s not a radical idea to require companies in America to provide at least two weeks of paid vacation to their workers. What’s radical is that millions of Americans are not only working longer hours for lower wages, but that they do not…

The Coast Guard is one of Maine's most important federal partners, protecting our maritime economy, conducting lifesaving search and rescue missions, and safeguarding our national security.

Instead of expanding access to early childhood education, he is moving to dismantle Head Start and the standards that keep its 700,000 kids safe. How cruel.

We hear a lot of talk about family values in America, but let’s be clear: When a husband, wife, and kids, during the course of an entire year, are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. That is an attack…

What the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act does is say that yes, we can create decent and affordable public housing for more than 1.5 million Americans that is based on energy efficiency and sustainable sources of power. And that when…

This proposed rule would weaken longstanding civil service protections that promote merit-based employment, due process and the recruitment and retention of skilled workers.

We are concerned this will increase attrition in the critical and experienced workforce that keeps our submarine fleet ready.

What you know as well as I do is that the right wing, that’s their job, right? They will take what one person said and put, you know, $80bn of TV ads on it and make the claim every Democrat supports that.

They’ve got nothing to say. We’re going to win.

We, therefore, ask you to withdraw OPM and MSPB's proposed rule.

But nobody I know believes in ‘defunding the police’.

If Mr. Carville doesn’t want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Piker, that El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party.

What Abdul did last night is pull off, in a sense, the biggest upset in the history of modern politics.

What I hope everybody appreciates is that what happened in Michigan yesterday is literally unprecedented in modern American history.

Now is the time to stand up to powerful special interests. Now is the time to start representing working families.

Maybe the Democratic establishment should begin to understand they are way, way, out of touch with where the American people are.

I believe, as I said, that it should be coordinated with and, the information should be shared with local and, and state officials, with the attorney general's office, with the governor's office.

Because they have the guts to talk to the issues that are on the minds of ordinary Americans. It’s not more complicated than that.