So I have a much different view about what we need to do as it relates to the economy.

it does not seem in the interests of the United States, for example, for our leader to routinely denigrate entire countries and their citizens.

So yesterday the Treasury Department identified senior political oligarchs and political figures in Russia, as mandated in the Countering America's Adversaries Through the Sanctions Act, which I was one of the coauthors of, which this body…

However, is it not true that yesterday the Trump administration failed to apply a single new sanction against anyone who might be supporting these Russian efforts?

Last year, the Administration proposed cutting more than $6 billion dollars from critical Federal housing and community development programs like CDBG, and supportive housing for the disabled and the elderly.

If you do not have the authorities then you need to tell...

Well, you need to tell the Committee that. You need to let us know.

I come to the floor to express my concerns over the nomination of Sam Brownback to serve as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom at the State Department. I do not take my vote against a former colleague's nomination…

I come to the floor to voice my concerns about the nomination of Alex Azar to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The American people deserve a Secretary of Health and Human Services who actually believes in the agency's…

I have been closely following, and raised in this Committee several times, a situation in Venezuela.

Mr. Secretary, please do not play word games with me.

here we are on a Sunday evening with the government technically already shut down, a year basically after President Trump said: What we need is ``a good shutdown.'' I didn't say that. My colleagues in the Democratic caucus didn't say that…