Of all the affordability challenges Americans face, housing is the most acute. This is certainly the case in California, but it’s true across much of the country.

If Republicans don’t get on board, it will be a liability for them, just as healthcare has been.

Finally, the Senate is exercising its constitutional power over the authorization of the use of force to prevent America from being dragged into a new war over oil.

for months, the Trump administration claimed that its campaign of blowing up boats in the Caribbean was about stopping drugs like deadly fentanyl coming to the United States-- never mind that fentanyl doesn't really come from Venezuela; it…

5 years ago, our Nation and democracy experienced one of its darkest days when a violent mob--incited by President Trump--ransacked the Capitol. Brave police officers were beaten, crushed, bear-sprayed, and maced while defending our…

The Trump Justice Department has had months to keep their promise to release all of the Epstein Files.

first, as my colleague served on the Intelligence Committee when I chaired the committee, he should well know that Members of Congress actually don't hold clearances that can be revoked; we either serve on certain committees or we don't…

I am going to ask this body to pass legislation requiring the Department of Defense to show Congress and the American people the September 2 video of strikes that killed two survivors on a shipwrecked vessel after the administration's…

almost 6 years ago, I stood here on the Senate floor--I was not yet a Member of this body--and spoke as a House Member leading President Trump's first impeachment. "We are not enemies," I said, quoting Lincoln, "but friends. We must not be…

Under such a lawless and corrupt administration, we need talented and creative leaders to do oversight work, expose the malfeasance to the public and break through in a fractured media environment, and Congressman Garcia has proven adept…

I never broke any law and was always forthcoming with my mortgage lenders.

It was a triumph of the rule of law.

today's vote will determine how much methane polluters are allowed to belch into the air. It will determine how many asthma attacks Americans suffer. It will determine how many Americans will die because we relaxed the standards on how…

The senator is certainly concerned that Donald Trump, who was investigated and indicted for obstruction, will persist in trying to stonewall and otherwise prevent the full release of all the documents and information in the U.S…

We owe our constituents better than this. We owe a resolution that makes it possible for them to afford healthcare.

So, no, I think what the president is revealing, once again, you know, more than eight years after he came down that golden escalator, they still don't have a health care plan. They're still back to what Trump once called 'the concept of a…

I would do away with it so that we can expand and protect people's freedoms and their rights.

I have continued to oppose the filibuster, and would be happy to do away with the filibuster, but the question is…for what reason?

[An end to the shutdown is] not going to happen until the president gets off the golf course, gets out of his ballroom planning, and sits down and negotiates.

We have no idea what the president means by that, except it sounds like what he means is the same old, tired proposal of repealing the Affordable Care Act, giving people a benefit in the form of a health savings account, but allowing…

In the middle of a shutdown, when people are really hurting, we need more than concepts of a plan.

We have the president telling us now, Republicans telling us now: they're not going to honor any agreement we reach with them.

The cruelty is part of the policy.

colleagues, I rise in support of this proposal to extend the ACA tax credits, extend the existing law for another year, reopen the government, and give us time to negotiate the longer term extension of the Affordable Care Act. This whole…

There has been no authorization to use force by Congress in this way