the idea that the body that I sat in was not going to do anything about the fact that by the end of the century at a moment when I hope that either or both my 3-year-old and 7-year-old are still going to be on this earth, the global…

I think it is important for us to be coordinated diplomatically.

I also note that there are a lot of commitments in law being made at the State and regional level as well that are serious and have enough history behind them to tell us what happens when you make a real commitment to reducing carbon.

Sometimes continuing a strategy, and sticking with it, is just as effective, if not more effective, than constantly changing it.

democracy doesn't work like this. Democracy doesn't work such that 90 percent of the American public can support the pretty simple concept that you should not get a gun if you are a criminal and have Congress ignore its will. Democracy…

He didn't understand why it was already the law of the land. A 7-year-old had enough common sense to know that criminals should not be able to own guns. As he went off to his first grade classroom--not unlike the first grade classroom that…

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Russia would owe Ukraine for what they did.

So I hope that we are ready to go with a series of other actions to ratchet up the consequence.

It does not get much more important than protecting our State Department personnel overseas.

There will be no reason for them to change course.

let me thank Senator Blumenthal for being such a great partner. He and I have traveled a very long journey together since September of 2012 when we both stood together at the firehouse in Sandy Hook, CT. We have become evangelical in our…

When workers want to join together with their coworkers, they are not looking for special treatment.

This decision does not change the relationship between a local business owner and her employees.

Workers can only exercise their basic rights, rights that are guaranteed under the Constitution and the National Labor Relations Act, when all of the employers who have a say in their working conditions are at the table.

I am here on the floor this afternoon to talk about a young man named Billy Smolinski and a law that Senator Hoeven and I are introducing on behalf of him, his family, and, quite literally, the millions of other families throughout the…

This committee should study these trends and discuss what we can do for workers and small business owners to keep the American Dream in reach for all families.

I believe we need to help our workers and grow our economy from the middle out, not from the top down.

I hope this committee can find ways to look at these trends and work together on policies that expand economic security.

these agreements that have been negotiated under this administration have done more to open the door toward these types of activities than I ever would have anticipated

I think I share some of the sentiments that Senator Cardin has expressed regarding what is a hard-fought and hard-won compromise, but a compromise first, second, and third.

over the course of the summer we have watched with horror as thousands more have died in Syria and Iraq, and the debate over what we should do about it has been omnipresent here in the Senate and in the House. We have held hearings…

It took us a long time to educate both providers and patients about chemical generics.

If we get a whole rash of State laws that erect barriers it doesn't really matter what education you do if the law prevents the usage of these biosimilars.

If we are successful in getting this pathway to biosimilars moving then my fear is with a product sitting on the market that could cost 30 percent less we are going to be behind this avalanche of pharmaceutical advertising that will keep…