"Dear senators, well, I always appreciate hearing from colleagues on the committee, your request to hold a second hearing on Vanita Gupta's nomination to the associate attorney general appears to be li..."
"Show me that the Senate can operate with the filibuster and still do things that make the U.S. a better nation."
"We need to do more than reflect. We need to act. We need to show we care and prevent the next mass shooting, if we can."
"This is what hitting legislative rock bottom looks like. Today’s filibuster has turned the world’s most deliberative body into one of the world’s most ineffectual bodies."
"Ten years ago, I had farm groups visiting my office, as I do to this day, and I asked them if any of them believed that human activity had anything to do with climate change. Not a single hand went up..."
"Thank you very much, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Boozman, for having this important hearing."
"Can we reduce carbon on the farm? Can we measure it? Just look at what John is doing."
"The statement of the Senator from Texas is just plain false, false. Let me be clear. Undocumented immigrants do not have social security numbers and they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks, per..."
"It's a troubling situation but I've been through this before with other colleagues and I just have to say the investigation should be completed and should be as quickly as possible and credibility giv..."
"America should never take it for granted. We have lost a half-a-million. We’re likely to lose more."
"There are two numbers that tell the story so dramatically. The United States has a little less than 5 percent of the world's population. We have 20 percent of the COVID-19 infections and deaths, four ..."
"We can do better as a nation. And that's what Joe Biden is challenging us to do, to put aside our differences, personal and political, and to really pull together to put an end to this pandemic once a..."