There is no reason that somebody should go to work full time in this country and not be able to pay their bills.

If you work full time in this country, you should be able to afford to live. But wages are so low that parents work 60 hours a week and still aren’t sure if they’ll have lunch money for their kids.

It seems designed to repel Democratic votes," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said. "They’re clearly not trying to pass this."

Kids have outsourced critical thinking. Have outsourced friendship. Have even outsourced moral advice to AI.

“Today’s decision is devastating for thousands of our neighbors who have lived and worked in our communities for years and just had the rug pulled out from under them. Now that the Supreme Court has rubberstamped the racist policies of…

Over the last year and a half, our president, Donald Trump, has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis, and we should start acting like it.

The cost of housing is the number one issue I hear about from people in Connecticut. Congress has sat back as rents skyrocketed, and home ownership got further and further out of reach. This bill is a necessary first step to addressing…

The voters are clearly telling us they want us to be bolder — bolder in the policies we’re proposing and bolder in the tactics we use to fight authoritarians.

You go from being on the brink of financial crisis, into financial crisis.

The cost of this war is being borne by American consumers, by American small businesses, by American farmers.

There is only one person to blame: Donald Trump. And there is only one party to blame: the Republican Party.

No kid should miss out on the fun and the bonding that comes with summer camp just because there aren’t enough spots or their family can’t afford it. The Summer for All Act provides federal funding for summer programming so that parents…

No it's not…this budget has a 35% proposed reduction for the Office of Civil Rights.

I knew it was going to be a humiliating agreement. I didn't know it was going to be this humiliating. I want the war to end. I'm willing to stomach a bad deal, but this agreement exposes what a colossal mistake it was.

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.

“Instead of ending the Iran war, instead of trying to do something about these spiraling prices and costs that are being borne by families and the federal government, the president has spent the last few weeks reaching his hand into the…

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…

“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…

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 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…

“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.”

“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.”

“Of course, we are seeing billions of dollars having been spent by businesses, by farms, by consumers, because gas prices are out of control. This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small…

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