Michael Bennet: “These numbers are staggering. They are not, obviously, just numbers. It is human lives in what we think of as the…”

the legislation we are debating today would modestly increase the size of the child tax credit while leaving out more than 17 million children from the full credit. America's poorest children, whose families are struggling to make ends…

the hour is late. I want to thank the Presiding Officer for being here. I am glad to be here with my colleague from New Hampshire and my neighbor from New Mexico. I want to thank the floor staff that is here tonight. And I would like to…

A free and independent press is the bedrock of our democracy, and an essential feature of democracies around the world.

I spent last weekend in Grand Junction, in our State, on Colorado's Western Slope. And my conversations with young parents and with families just starting out, I think--I would hope--would be familiar to many colleagues that are here. We…