You were able to make changes. Why can you not make a change here?

Will you personally support clawing back any or all of the pay for the person in charge of compliance?

I am on the floor today to talk about the Presidential Tax Transparency Act. It is a simple proposal that would require every Presidential candidate of a major party to release their tax returns. Hillary Clinton has already done it. In…

the long-term solution here is for Congress to expand Social Security, to make sure it works for those who depend on it

If a town believes the maps are wrong and it does not have the money to hire the very expensive engineering consultants the way Quincy did, what happens to those towns?

The accuracy of flood maps should not be based on whether a community can scrape together the money for a very expensive independent review.

Many of us worked together to draft the bipartisan Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, which gave homeowners some relief on the dramatic increases for flood insurance.

You are telling me that you would fix it and that Quincy did not need to spend $650,000 for the independent engineering reviews?

Republicans who control the Senate are setting new records for obstruction by slowing the pace of judicial nominations to a crawl and leaving courts across this Nation overburdened and understaffed. I have listened as Senator McConnell has…

it is disgraceful that Republicans are blocking confirmation of these judges. It is even more disgraceful that 18 additional nominees haven't even had hearings yet, including Merrick Garland, who has now waited longer than any Supreme…

It is just powerfully important.

So you are pulling that up.

I think it would make just a huge difference for those who have lost a parent or have lost parents to get that little bit of extra income that could help them get through college with less debt.

In the midst of a growing retirement crisis, the one thing that Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on is that we need to expand, not cut, Social Security benefits for those who need it most.

Donald Trump spent years pedaling Trump University, a sham college that his own former employees refer to as one big, fraudulent scheme. Now he is being sued for fraud and, worse, for targeting the most vulnerable people he could find…

Every time Congress tries to weaken Dodd-Frank regulations, it puts our country at risk.

I am not sure what version of the Constitution you are reading that doesn't say confirming judges is part of doing your job in the U.S. Senate. These judges have all been completely vetted, they are noncontroversial, and they have…

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for yielding. I just want to talk a little bit about data. I believe in data. I try to find good information about issues and use that information to inform my work. We need good data. But can we trust…

we do not have a process that is working. The Nation faces a judicial vacancy crisis. Ten percent of the district court judgeships in this country are empty. We face nearly twice as many judicial emergencies as President Bush faced in 2008…

it would take no time to confirm these judges. These are all people who have been examined by the committee, who have passed out of committee, who are pending on the floor, and who have bipartisan support. These are judges from Tennessee…

this has been going on now for a year and a half. The Republicans have delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed until we face dozens of judicial emergencies. There is always an excuse not to take up even noncontroversial appointments…

``judicial emergency'' is an official term that refers to a vacancy in our court system for a court that carries a heavy caseload or a vacancy that has remained open for an extended period of time. In the United States, we now have dozens…

Low-income students and students of color are disproportionately attending schools where they simply don't have access to the kinds of classes they need for our most competitive colleges and universities.

What role should the company's political influence here in Congress or their connections to officials inside the Student Loan Bank play in the selection process for these servicers?

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