Mazie Hirono: “Arbitrarily cutting our Federal spending back to fiscal year 2008 levels... is in my view a meat-ae approach to fiscal…”

I rise today to celebrate Medicare and Medicaid, two programs that have enabled millions--millions--of Americans to get the healthcare they need. Sixty years ago today, President Johnson signed into law a bill creating these two critical…

A vote against this amendment is a vote to screw the most vulnerable people in our country. I yield. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.

In functionally overturning the last enforceable section of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has once again put the interests of Republicans and their billionaire buddies before the voting rights of millions of Americans.

We should be supporting our public schools, not taking resources away from them.