Raphael Warnock

We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we`ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era.

Mr. President, before I begin my formal remarks, I want to pause to condemn the hatred and violence that took eight precious lives last night in metropolitan Atlanta.

So, let’s be clear. I’m not here today to spiral into the procedural argument regarding whether the filibuster in general has merits or has outlived its usefulness. I’m here to say that this issue is bigger than the filibuster.

Some politicians did not approve of the choice made by the majority of voters in a hard-fought election in which each side got a chance to make its case to the voters. And rather than adjusting their agenda. Rather than changing their…

It is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the Senate, while refusing to protect minority rights in the society.

Historically disadvantaged farmers have to be center in a policy around addressing the issue of climate change

I am proud that the American Rescue Plan Act includes many of the provisions that I put together to begin the process of addressing this discrimination, including debt forgiveness and new investments.

We are immediately, as soon as Joe Biden`s ink is dry on his pen, we think Friday afternoon, we`re going to launch a whole effort to make that permanent.

I commit to leveraging resources of the Department to address the issues associated with connecting Americans to affordable Internet access.

1 in 5 rural Georgians are without high-speed Internet access.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing inequalities families and communities have faced for too long.

My vision for the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is to expand its reach and impact on underserved communities.

I think it’s a contradiction to say that people ought to work and not make work pay.

Help is on the way. We’re about to pass a historic piece of legislation that will cut child poverty in half.

Our military men and women in uniform are obviously putting it all on the line for us, to protect us, and the least we can do is protect them from abusive practices in our financial systems.

I look forward to working with you on this issue. It is my view that our young people should not have to mortgage their future just to have a shot at a future, and it pressing not only for them but for our entire economy.

It is great to be here with you, and let me say how excited I am to be named chairman of this Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection.

I look forward to working with you as we work on a recovery that embraces our whole country.

I especially look forward to working with you and Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic to help Georgians over the next 2 years.

The bottom line is that poverty, systemic inequality, wealth inequality are risks to the entire economy

So we want the economy to fully recover, but we have got to get the virus under control, and those things work together.

I don`t know about you, but I`m so proud of the State of Georgia, let America hear you roar.

There is a sense in which the world is in flux. When that happens, there are always those demagogues who are trying to scapegoat other people, stirring up the worst types of stereotypes and creating all kinds of division, age old racial…

The people of Georgia deserve relief. And that's what I intend to fight.

Georgians need a senator not a sycophant. They need someone who understands that their job is to represent the people.