Community Development Financial Institutions and Minority Depository Institutions provide a range of critical supports to underserved communities.

We need to use every tool we have to address the affordable housing crisis that is worsening by the day.

Our country is facing a historic housing crisis, with the impact falling hardest on low-income families and communities of color.

My American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would invest $25 billion in the Capital Magnet Fund over 10 years.

Good. We need to make big investments in child care. That is part of what Build Back Better is all about, and it is time for us to get this done.

But our child-care system is in crisis.

So families are paying more. Child-care centers are spending more--things like masks and tests, their ratios of supervisors to children--and yet child-care workers are not making any more money.

I believe one study that I read showed that providers have seen nearly a 50-percent increase in their costs, in part due to the pandemic.

History demonstrates that we best serve Native American people when Tribal Governments are empowered to lead their communities, and when Federal officials speak with and listen to Tribal leaders in formulating Federal policy that affects…

An institution responsible for the security of our financial system and the growth of our economy cannot blind itself to climate issues.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and congratulations to all three of our nominees.

Listen to what the Washington Post Editorial Board wrote. ... the Senate should move quickly to put them in place.

For the first time in almost a decade we will have a full Board of Governors at the Fed, one that reflects the country.

I will support Chair Powell's nomination for another term running the Fed, but even he thinks that it is just common sense that the Fed should work to mitigate the risk of significant economic loss triggered by climate change.

I have long advocated for rewriting our ethics rules to prevent conflicts of interest, to close the revolving door, and to restore Americans' trust in our political system.

We need a whole lot more people in institutions like the Fed who understand how ignorant that term is, and misleading, and who understand that economic growth only matters if it reaches people like in Oak Harbor, Ohio.

I do not believe in solitary confinement for extended periods of time for anyone.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand in recess under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 10:01 p.m., recessed until Wednesday, January 19, 2022, at 10 a.m.

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it recess until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 19; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders…

I understand that there are 20 bills at the desk due for a second reading en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bills by title for the second time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 3452) to ensure that…

I rise today to urge the Senate to take action to protect voting rights and to defend our democracy. Voting is foundational to our democracy. In a strong, functioning democracy, the playing field is level. Citizens have a right to vote…

I want to say a very special thank-you to my colleague, the Senator from Oregon. Senator Merkley has worked harder and more persistently on questions about the filibuster and the procedures of the U.S. Senate for years now and tried to…

In order to place the bills on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I would object to further proceeding en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The items will be placed on the calendar under rule XIV…

Today’s filibuster doesn’t encourage debate. It promotes cowardice. Senators can torpedo bills without saying a single word in public or even stepping to the floor of the United States Senate. This is not how a so-called deliberative body…

maybe the people who need to also be repealed and replaced are Manchin and Sinema.