Richard Blumenthal

Detention centers' reliance on solitary to hold vulnerable populations, such as detainees with mental illness, a basic structural challenge for ICE.

That ICE continues to place many detainees with mental health concerns in administrative or disciplinary segregation--also known as solitary confinement--contrary to agency directives.

It would be unpatriotic. It would be immoral to fail to do so.

The president refuses to hear about it because he regards it as an insult to his election.

The Republicans yesterday really tried to turn that hearing into a kind of side show, but this attack on our democracy is really deadly serious. Robert Mueller is a modern-day Paul Revere. Now, the question is, will the nation listen?

Whether the president likes it or not, he has to lead or get out of the way.

It ought to be the president at the forefront leading, not denying the overwhelming unanimous opinion of the intelligence community.

That Intelligence Committee report is bipartisan. What it shows is that the Russians began this misinformation and disinformation attack on our democracy as early as 2014, well before the 2016 election. They are continuing. They probed and…

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island and I look forward to coming back to the floor with him and expanding on this colloquy in the future. I will be a proud partner of his in advocating for the measures, and I join him in praising our…

Senator Blumenthal's efforts to curb dangerous and predatory social media marketing targeting children...

As a former United States attorney and a state attorney general for some 20 years, I am baffled by this memorandum.

We introduced this measure because of the absolutely dire danger to women in states like Alabama and Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio where these draconian, demagogic measures have been passed that absolutely eviscerate women's reproductive rights.

It will be on him if there are no accomplishments because very clearly, he will be the one who is the obstacle.

For the president to say he cannot do both, no legislation unless you stop the investigation is fundamentally a betrayal of the American system of government, and it is hostage-taking in the worst sense of the word.

The president said to them you can't legislate and investigate at the same time. That is really holding hostage the needs of the American people and the American system of government.

Speaker Pelosi is a smart, strong woman who clearly has his number.

I think the American people want accountability, and there will be accountability, either through an impeachment proceeding in the Congress, or through the courts, possibly criminally, or through the court of public opinion at the ballot…

We can do oversight and scrutiny, which is Congress' responsibility under Article I of the Constitution, and at the same time legislate.

Thank you, Madam President. I will be speaking in just a moment, but I understand the minority leader, Senator Schumer, is on his way to speak before me, so he should be here within moments.

Holding the attorney general in contempt of court is a very powerful marker and a message about this attorney general's contempt for the rule of law.

Holding Don McGahn in contempt means holding the president accountable, along with others who may have participated in obstruction of justice.

There is so much that is unknown here. And it underscores the importance of the lawsuit that I have brought along with almost 200 of my colleagues, Blumenthal versus Trump, that seeks the story and evidence of his payments and benefits…

And the American people should be asking, what is in those six years of current tax returns that Donald Trump wants to conceal?

Biggest loser is certainly a contrast to his boasts about his business acumen. But very significantly, this report raises many more significant questions than this wonderful reporting was able to answer. And it sheds light on why President…

The president, in fact, is saying that he has ultimate power.