I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of H.R. 1651, which was received from the House and is at the desk. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered ____________________

Marcia Reitman Currie from New York; Mitchell Wright, Jr., from Missouri; Nicholas Tarpley from Pennsylvania; Reuben Lewis III from California; Rhyce Wingate-Bey, Maryland; Robert Crochiere, Massachusetts; Samuel Lamont Smith- Williams…

I thank my friend Senator Cortez Masto for that powerful testimony, for sharing some of these stories talking about the impact on families in Las Vegas and throughout her State, and to talk about what this means from a parent's…

I thank my friend Senator Bennet for those remarks, for honoring the memories of those we have lost and commanding us to action. I remember getting a phone call from Michael Bennet that Friday morning as Senator Blumenthal and I were…

I ask unanimous consent that following morning business tomorrow, Thursday, March 25, all postcloture time on the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 11, H.R. 1799, the PPP Extension Act, be considered expired and the motion to proceed be…

I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection having been heard, the bill will be receive a second…

I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 963) to authorize…

Republicans are going to be on the floor today, taking a sudden 100-percent sincere interest in immigration reform. They are going to propose that the Senate take up a handful of bills to address what they call a crisis created by…

This is the moment to make our stand. Now. Today our movement is stronger than the gun lobby. They are weak. We are potent. Finally a President and a Congress that supports gun reform. No more Newtowns. No more Parklands. No more Boulders…

What Russia is really betting on is that they can destabilize the politics and economics of both of these nations.

In the wake of 2008, the United States made a sizable commitment to Georgia in the neighborhood of a billion dollars.

It's not just the families who grieve it's the trauma that just washes over these communities like waves and the weeks and months afterwards. Is it going to be hard? This is going to be difficult. But to honor those 20 lives and six more…

So, I would argue start with a background checks bill and then use that bipartisan coalition to try to move on to other reforms after that.

It absolutely is. But, you know, back to data. You know, let's be very clear, when we had a ban on assault weapons from 1994 to 2004, we saw a significant reduction in mass shootings.

But there's a strong version of expanded background checks that he does support.

So, the data is just 100 percent clear, and Republicans have sort of resorted to raising their voice because the American public isn't on their side. Ten percent of the country agrees with Ted Cruz, 90 percent of the country agrees with me.

Ted Cruz is really good at yelling. He's not good at telling the truth. And the truth is that states with stronger gun laws have lower rates of gun violence, communities with higher rates of gun ownership have higher rates of gun violence.

I think there's a reason that Mitch McConnell refused to bring a background checks vote before the Senate for the last five years. It's because he was afraid -- there would be 60 votes to pass it because there's a lot of Republican…

his path as a lawmaker was shaped by the trauma of the mass shooting of school kids in his state.

I worked hard for reform after the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary.

What Republicans are standing in the way of is a civil rights issue.

Well, I`m thinking a lot about the families in Newtown today because what I know is that every single time, there`s another mass shooting, they relive the experiences of December 2012.

The biggest specter that haunts the folks that ends up making this dangerous journey tends to be gun violence in places like Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, among others.

We have to address policies that fix all of that, not just the mass casualties that show up on the news.