Tom Malinowski

I urge Congress to support a suite of legislative measures necessary to reduce poverty.

Congress should use existing funding and new funding mechanisms to direct federal funds to address the issue.

We cannot leave this for the next generation. This is something that has happened on our watch.

There is a profound debate that we are having in this very body right now about the words we speak and the example that we set when it comes to bigotry and intolerance.

Let's make sure that our budgets for the Justice Department, including the FBI and for DHS, are adequate to meeting the threat that our citizens actually face from both foreign and domestic extremist groups.

I also ask for full funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood-Risk Management Program.

America's infrastructure, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.

We have invested enormous resources as a country to prevent foreign terrorists from conducting attacks on our soil, and we have been remarkably successful.

Today I rise to welcome the Mayors Council on Rahway River Watershed Flood Control to Washington. They represent towns in and around New Jersey's Seventh District and are here to ask our help to stop the flooding that hurts thousands of…

Let us also not forget that we have completely eliminated USAID programs operating to improve water systems, to encourage Palestinian and Israeli children to get to know each other, to support schools.

It is that we have two great powers, Russia and China, that are challenging the world order that we built and our moral authority to lead it.

Does that make our troops safer? I mean, is there an issue potentially with--in terms of the safety of our troops if there are no civilian eyes or ears?

Thank you. On to the Senate.

President Putin's primary strategic goal with respect to the United States is to divide us from our allies.

I feel like in the case of Venezuela this is a policy that, broadly speaking, I can support.

In my view, what we are dealing with here is an anti-democratic coup, a slow-motion anti-democratic coup that was carried out by the Maduro regime.

This is not a left or right issue. This is not an issue that should divide us on ideological grounds.

It is ridiculous, and Congress needs to make that absolutely clear.

These funding and language requests will help us get closer to what I believe is our shared goal, ensuring no catastrophic loss to this vital transportation link.

Today I rise to honor the memory of John Lee, a resident of New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District who passed away on January 25 after waging a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Lee immigrated to America in 1987 and worked day and…

I certainly agree with my friend and it is a responsibility that Congress over the years has, arguably, abdicated.

If this was being done to us there is no question in my mind that we would agree that that would be hostilities against the United States.

It had no impact on their accuracy in part because accuracy was not the problem.

I think the standard we are setting here for defining engagement in active hostilities is in fact very, very high, very, very appropriate and I will be voting for this resolution as a result.

I think we should debate the substance of this rather than suggest that any of us on this side have not thoroughly studied the question.