Congress has raised the minimum wage only four times in the past 40 years.
Women are nearly two-thirds of workers paid the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Far too many families experience tragedies like ours every single day.
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.
I am an immigrant, and the research is clear that immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens.
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 t...
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, m...
It is time. In Congress, we sit here with the ability and the power to do something, and history will not be kind to us if we continue to al...
I do think it is very important.
Our community and our Nation cannot wait any longer for common-sense gun safety solutions like extreme risk laws and universal background ch...
Many of you know, gun violence is an issue that is deeply personal for me.