saying that you should take a haircut, does it actually mean--it means a default because you are not paying the full amount.

There is not a single President who is either African American or someone like me, Latino. That is fundamentally wrong.

the overwhelming majority would be taking a haircut that, as proposed by Mr. Trump, would ultimately mean U.S. citizens, State and local governments, and that is pretty outrageous.

I rise today to be a voice for the 3\1/2\ million citizens living on the island of Puerto Rico. I rise so their concerns for themselves, their families, and their livelihoods will be heard--to ask that we improve House-passed legislation…

I cannot imagine anything constructive that they would be willing to work with us on under the existing government.

I thank my colleague for yielding for a question. I thank him and my colleague from New Jersey, Senator Booker, and also Senator Blumenthal for galvanizing the sentiment that has existed for some time among many of us that enough is…

Then in countries like Venezuela and others, this is not unique to them, where they are operating in a way for which there is significant operations in transnational crime, then we must find other ways, if we cannot induce them to…

I absolutely think it should be driven by pursuing our own national security interests and projecting our own values.

I only ask perfectly legitimate questions.

I wish to speak on this fourth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, DACA, for all of the young men and young women it has helped bring out of the shadows--young men and woman who came to this country as…

But if we had a $500-billion problem in any other context, we would not just accept education as the only vehicle for dealing with it.

I used to hold up weapons sales to some countries because I feared that in fact they did not have the wherewithal to do that.