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Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Hawaii since December 26, 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Schatz has focused on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and education during his time in office. He succeeded Daniel Akaka and has been an advocate for renewable energy and environmental protection, reflecting Hawaii's unique ecological challenges and opportunities.
reserving the right to object, I want to be clear about what is going on. I have worked very hard on tech issues and introduced bipartisan legislation actually to reform section 230. We have had hearings in this area. Senator Thune and I…
Yes. And I think what's -- first of all, they're not going to start contact tracing. And what's crazy to me about this, this particular issue, is contact tracing actually is hard. We've had some difficulty in the State of Hawaii getting it…
The President tweeted out this announcement that he personally was killing the stimulus talks because he doesn't want crime-infested Democrat cities to get any money as if they are not Americans.
The fact that the President has withdrawn from COVID relief negotiations in favor of installing a Supreme Court Justice, in order to take away health care, six days after the election.
He is absolutely ruining his electoral chances by pulling out of COVID relief talks.
we know that on Saturday the President is likely to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court, and we don't know who that is going to be, but we do know a couple of things. We know, according to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee…
we are on the precipice of a depression because of politics. Right now, every single State and most counties and most cities are experiencing a budget crisis like they haven't seen in generations. Tax revenues are down due to high…
Senators Murkowski, Harris, Paul, and I are offering a bipartisan amendment that proposes reasonable, commonsense reforms to the 1033 Program. Groups on the left and the right support it, including the NAACP, the National Urban League…
I call up amendment No. 2252, as provided for under the previous order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Schatz] proposes an amendment numbered 2252 to…
I ask unanimous consent that we start the vote now. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the question occurs on agreeing to the Schatz amendment No. 2252. The yeas and…
I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of Amendments.'')
just by way of rebuttal to the Senator from Wyoming, to make clear what the Schatz-Murkowski-Harris-Paul amendment does, we were very thoughtful and deliberative and collaborative with Members of the Senate to ensure that the problem he is…
I will be very quick. I understand we have work to do on the Defense authorization and the vote coming up, but I am glad the majority leader is on the floor, and I am glad so many Members are on the floor. We have a problem in this…
may I ask the Presiding Officer to remind us of rule XIX. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will remind Senators of both parties that rule XIX provides that no Senator in debate shall directly or indirectly, by any form of words, impute to…
today is the 1st of the month, and that means the rent is due, but for the 9 million renters who have lost their jobs, they may not be able to pay. Now, in March, we made sure that the CARES Act included cash assistance, unemployment…
the American experiment was a radical one. It imagined equal justice under the law. It imagined equal protection under the law. It imagined a cumbersome system in which tyranny could be avoided by the constant struggle between elected and…
Mr. Chief Justice, I have a question on behalf of myself and Senators Whitehouse and Heinrich, and this is for the counsel for the President and the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. Question from Senators Schatz, Whitehouse…
Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. The question from Senator Schatz is directed to the House managers, and the question also is from Senator Feinstein: If the President were acting in the interest of…
reserving the right to object. Let's get clear about what is happening here. The first thing is we did something momentous as a group. We, on a bipartisan basis, decided to provide paid parental leave of 12 weeks for the Federal…
As if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of S. 3104, the Federal Employee Parental Leave Technical Correction Act…
this resolution urges the inclusion of the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act in the final conference agreement on the NDAA. This resolution provides 12 weeks of paid family leave for Federal employees in all situations already covered under…
I want to recognize my friend and colleague Senator Murphy for his moral leadership on this issue and for continuously demanding that all of us do better and that all of us do more to address what is an epidemic of gun violence. We are…
it is not a rhetorical flourish to say that Senate Republicans are being fully obedient to the President of the United States. The evidence of the last few days has confirmed that Republicans are not standing up for American institutions…
in the Senate, in the Congress, and in politics, people are a little too loose with their praise. Everybody is getting applause, everybody is getting thanked, everybody is the greatest, and it gets a little tiresome. So I try to be a…
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