These are hospitals that are serving clearly rural areas and not wealthy people. They are struggling farm families and struggling rural families.

But that’s exactly the issue—there’s no choice in forced arbitration. It was a ‘take it or leave it’ [approach] for the employees before this new law was enacted.

It is incumbent upon DOE to take a wide view of and responsibility for the health of our nation’s energy systems.

As if this brazen politicization of DOE’s grant-making process were not bad enough, these cancellations also took aim at our constituents’ wallets.

I have seen a few farm bills… The decision was made in the 1960s to blend together food and nutrition programs [to the Farm Bill]… That winning coalition has paid off ever since. We need it again and it has to be part of this SNAP…

It is unconscionable that ATF, whose mission is to protect the public from violent gun crime, would even begin to consider regulatory changes that could result in such deadly outcomes.

I… warned them, be careful not to let your students be lured into these for-profit colleges and universities.

I am pleased to have helped co-lead this timely legislation and encourage the House to take it up immediately when they return from their August recess.

Birthright citizenship is the law of the land, which the Supreme Court just upheld in June. But Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant agenda will never miss a chance to sow doubt and fear in immigrant communities. The Trump…

I beg my young students in Illinois to start there, and counselors to do their job and discourage kids from getting involved with these for-profit schools.

This paperwork requirement of people in low-income categories is an onerous responsibility… as long as they are trying in good faith to comply with the law, I don’t think we should deny them the $6 a day.

With these proposed revisions, ATF is rewriting the regulations that have been used and relied on for decades to help keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who are not allowed to have them for mental health reasons under 18 U.S.C…

The attorney general is supposed to be the people’s lawyer.

What do the hospitals tell you when you go home? … Senator Duckworth and I sent letters to 129 rural hospitals in Illinois and said, how are you doing? More than half of them said, we are in trouble—serious trouble.

Let’s put farm families back in the Farm Bill. And what I’m talking about specifically are not only the profits and losses in farm operations, but the burdens that farm families are carrying.

Do you stand by your words?

I’m deeply troubled by these statements… Why should people of color believe that you’ve changed from the statements that you made in 2001?

Do you have any second thoughts about the position you’ve taken on this issue [forced arbitration]?

Do you still oppose the Violence Against Women Act?

At a time when energy prices are skyrocketing, the Administration is hell-bent on political retribution instead of working to bring down costs for millions of Americans.

We urge ATF to withdraw the Proposed Rule in its entirety.

To my Republican colleagues: you gave Mr. Blanche the benefit of the doubt when you supported his nomination to be Deputy Attorney General.

I think it’s a good response but it is inconsistent with… the testimony you gave before the House of Representatives. Do you think forced arbitration of sexual assault and sexual harassment cases is right or wrong?

This is a serious mistake for the Senate to approve Todd Blanche as the next Attorney General.

Dr. Fauci is an example of American excellence, a brilliant scientific mind and yet, the Republican Party has chosen to make this doctor who saved countless lives a political target.