It is just powerfully important.

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.

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

``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…

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…

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?