The cost of PBGC's failure will be extraordinary and will result in a loss of tax revenue and higher demands on Federal, state and local government safety nets.

Changing the actuarial assumptions used by multiemployer plans to be closer to what the single employer plans use would make the crisis even worse.

We know that 50 percent of people who experience stalking experiences, they experience some form of violence.

I heard from a family... who spends $1,500 a month on diabetic supplies for her daughter, who has type 1 diabetes.

Not only would this legislation help women in Georgia, this will also help families across the Nation.

I am proud to be an original cosponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act and I think most of us can agree that every American should earn equal pay for equal work.

And it could be psychological. It could be-- you know, whatever.

I appreciated hearing your remarks about the lack of state funding for public education after the Great Recession.

And I know that we are going to enforce the voters rights, the Voting Rights Act robustly, and we will continue--again, if--if there is evidence, we should get that to our FBI and the people that enforce these laws so we can properly…

I witnessed voter suppression firsthand in Georgia even as I was running in my own election.

Does the $15 minimum wage have the same purchasing power in Washington, DC, that it does in rural parts of the country?

It is time for us to raise the minimum wage and to have these very, very important conversations.

I believe that workers in every part of the country, they deserve a raise, most definitely.

Women are nearly two-thirds of workers paid the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

Congress has raised the minimum wage only four times in the past 40 years.

The Federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since 2009.

We need a Federal minimum wage policy that works for rural, suburban, as well as urban Americans.

My goal is truly to make sure that folks in rural communities, communities of color, and distressed communities are not adversely affected by well-intentioned minimum wage policies.

We need to raise the minimum wage to help families make ends meet, but we also need to do it in a way that protects jobs and small businesses in our communities.

If you don't have the guts or the courage to do something about this issue and send a message to the American people, who desperately turn to us, then it is time for you to leave.

I do think it is very important.

We need to push along extreme risk protection orders, ERPOs, so that we have these red flag laws to supplement the use of background checks to find out if someone has a mental disturbance. This is the single most important thing that we…

Our community and our Nation cannot wait any longer for common-sense gun safety solutions like extreme risk laws and universal background checks.

The pain of losing a child to gun violence never ends, and it is in that pain that drives me to do this work to prevent gun violence.

In a country that we say is the greatest country in the world, my God, you ought to be able to go to a school, church, synagogue, concert, movie theater, and nightclub, not just in Orlando, but in any city in this country, and not have to…