I mean, the President continues on a daily basis to admit to a level of corruption that I believe is likely impeachable.

I just listened to the majority leader come to the floor and tell Members of the Senate that they should close their eyes and box their ears to the current scandal that is engulfing the White House and the Trump administration. I heard the…

let me thank, once again, my colleagues for being on the floor with us this evening, for the compelling testimony of Senator Schatz, Senator Casey, Senator Brown, Senator Van Hollen, and so many others who have joined us this evening. We…

I thank my colleagues for their indulgence this evening and those of you who help us keep this floor open. I will make some longer remarks later this evening, but while we have a short break on the floor and await Senator Brown, I want to…

What we should be doing right now is engaging in diplomacy to ramp down these tensions and any alternative is ultimately going to be much worse off in the long run for us and our Saudi partners.

It would be a disaster for the United States to pretend as if we have a defense treaty with Saudi Arabia and start firing missiles into Iran, causing a new regional war.

What the United States of America should be doing right now is deescalating this conflict between the Saudis and the United States and the Iranians instead of escalating it.

If President Trump were to come out in the next several days for expanded background checks, I think you'd have a lot of Republicans eager to rally around him.

Mitch McConnell clearly has a different copy of the constitution than all the rest of us, because this isn't the first issue in which he throws his arms up in the air and says I can't do anything about it unless the President blesses it.

We're using every lever that we have to try to shame our Republican colleagues into doing something on an issue that is frankly not controversial anywhere but inside the United States Congress.

I am going to be joined on the floor over the course of about an hour or so by Members of the Senate who are desperate for our colleagues to wake up and recognize that the time for action to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this…

the question is, what does that really mean? Is it all talk no action?

I remain pessimistic that that's how this is going to play out. But I'm glad that he is still interested in this.

We'd like to get the President, who has made a bunch of noise about supporting a background checks deal, we'd like to get his imprimatur on a specific proposal.

There has been discussions happening between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, including the White House.

Well, I wake up every day optimistic. Optimistic, because I know eventually democracy catches up to the Senators who oppose 90 percent of their constituents who want things like universal background checks.

People just aren't signing up to be part of the NRA like they used to. In part, because NRA is so out of step with their own membership, 80 percent of NRA members want universal background checks and yet the NRA is lobbying against the…

I don't think the NRA is as powerful as they make it out to be.

Mr. President, it's going to have to be you that brings Republicans to the table on this because right now, the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks.

Mr. President, it's going to have to be you that brings the Republicans to the table on this because right now, the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks.

I think Mitch McConnell is really nervous about putting his members on record.

I just don't think you can count on this President ever following through on backing really tough gun measures.

none of the things that are being proposed are going to change the reality on the ground when it comes to mass shootings or in places like Chicago where 50 people were shot this week.

this really is ultimately a question of political power. This is about winning enough elections so that it is 90 percent of our constituents that want things like universal background checks who get their say.

But allow us to do what we are supposed to be able to do as senators, which is to try to amend that and make it stronger.