the Department's mission takes on outsized importance.

leadership does make a difference and it is important that we support the president in putting together the team he needs.

to have literally hundreds of thousands of people without power for days on end is simply unacceptable?

Well, considering the massiveness of the failure in Texas, I think that they probably did not follow your recommendations very well.

I do think that there are some commodities such as electricity that are so basic that I do not know if free market is the best system to deliver those necessary commodities.

I rise today to introduce the Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act of 2021. I thank my colleague from North Carolina, Senator Tillis, for working with me on this important piece of legislation, which serves as a first step to…

At the end of the day, although the Republicans tried -- they spent many, many hours trying to weaken the bill and ultimately not a single one voted for it. At the end of the day, we Democrats knew that we were going to get a bill that was…

I`m very disappointed that not one Republican voted for it and neither did any Republican in the House.

Oh, I had little doubt that we were going to get this done because all of the Democrats voted to use the reconciliation process.

Understanding that Mitch McConnell`s goal is to retake the senate which means that he is not going to be with us in pushing legislation that Joe Biden wants.

Mitch McConnell wants to be able to uh be the guy that stops all of them. And that is why he`s so intent on keeping filibuster intact.

I rise today to introduce a bill that requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on the establishment of, and the potential land that could be included in, a unit of the National Forest System in the State of Hawaii. The U.S…