Madam President, 10 years ago, greedy financial institutes crashed our economy and crushed working families all across this country. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, millions lost their homes, and millions lost their life savings…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, for decades powerful interests have been working to take over our courts and tilt the scales of justice in favor of billionaires and giant corporations. President Trump has been all in, nominating extreme and partisan judges…

We are spending, this year, $700 billion on defense, and the only priority I hear from you... is 'more.'

I think all of those things that you cited are things that also contribute enormously to the national security.

If we continue to prioritize investment in defense at the expense of infrastructure, education, basic research, then we will have a hollow country.

But, there's a reason that the Constitution puts the hard calls on the civilian part of government.

The long-term-debt issue, if you look at the CBO's 20-year projections, is clearly driven by Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

We need to stop treating domestic policy and national security as if they're unrelated to each other.