I rise today to honor the life of Dr. Sherif R. Zaki, an exceptional leader at the CDC who passed away on November 21, 2021. Dr. Zaki, who joined the CDC in 1988, was the founder and branch chief of CDC's Infectious Disease Pathology…

The Senate needs to make voting rights the very next issue we take up. We must do voting rights, and we must deal with this issue now.

if that 60-vote rule can change for other things and the dome of the Capitol doesn’t come crashing down because of it, why can’t we change that 60 vote rule to pass voting rights too?

We make a terrible error of judgment if we became as if these are ordinary times. These are no ordinary times. And if we don`t do something to protect our democracy, here`s my fear, Rachel. I fear that we may well have crossed a Rubicon…

We must put the fire out. That means we’ve got to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and we must build a fire station to handle future fires.

Some of my Democratic colleagues are saying, but what about -- what about bipartisanship? Isn’t that important? I say, of course it is. But here’s the thing we must remember. Slavery was bipartisan. Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The…

As we cast that vote to begin addressing the debt ceiling this same chamber is allowing the ceiling of our democracy to crash in around us. I happen to believe that our democracy is at least as important as the economy.

It is misplaced to change the Senate rules only for the benefit of the economy when the warning lights on our democracy are flashing at the same time.

As this January 6th investigation turns to the bigger picture, right? Not just the immediate violent acts in the capitol that day, but the plot that the capitol attack was part of.

The judgment of history is upon us. Future generations will ask, when the democracy was in a 911 state of emergency, what did you do to put the fire out?

Democrats have tried again and again to engage our Republican friends in a discussion on this issue, one that lies at the foundation of our democracy, and time and time again because of a lack of good faith engagement, the rules of the…

I come to the floor today after a long week of wrestling with my conscience. Before we left Washington last week, we in this Chamber made a change in the Senate's rules in order to push forward something that all of us think is important…