Our democracy is in a 911 emergency. And I’m not about to be stopped or stymied by debates about Senate rules. It’s a contradiction for us to say we must protect minority rights in the Senate, while right now here in Georgia, they’re…

So, you are literally going to make public policy based on a lie, based on the feeling that some people have that things didn’t turn out the way they should have turned out? Is that how we make public policy? We counted the votes not once…

It is that big lie that is the fuel for these terrible voter suppression laws that we see coming out of the state of Georgia. And we have had to push hard against the big lie and make sure that we secure the democracy for all of our…

the notion that you`re going to protect the rights of the minority at the -- in the Senate, at the expense of the rights of the minorities across the United States is absurd.

I rise today to join my colleagues-- Senator Brown; Senator Booker; the Presiding Officer, Senator Bennet-- in shining a bright spotlight on the tragedy of child poverty and what the Senate needs to do and can do to eliminate poverty…

Our democracy is in a 911 emergency. And I`m not about to be stopped or stymied by debates about Senate rules.

So, what`s the purpose of all of this? They don`t like the outcome. And so this is democracy in reverse, where politicians have decided that, instead of the voters picking their representatives, the representatives have a right to…

The ball is in the court of the legislature.

Food insecurity, lack of access to health care, particularly in States that have yet to expand Medicaid, larger issues around health, including obesity, all part of a network of care that we address by expanding Medicaid.

What is our legislature doing? They`re busy in the -- under the gold dome here in Georgia trying to prevent people from being able to vote the same day they register.

For every young person who`s ever wondered whether or not your vote counts, you should have no doubt in your mind now. If your vote didn`t matter they wouldn`t be working so hard to try to stop it. So don`t let anybody take your voice or…

Those of us who have the honor of representing the people in both houses of Congress, the only reason where there and able to argue about anything, is because somebody voted for us to be there. And so this, this whole cell systemic effort…