They called me up and said, 'We're taking imminent action, we can't tell you what country.'

I'm here to say that Democrats are going to fight like hell to strip these cruel provisions from the Republican bill.

If the press reporting about the impact of last weekend's strikes in Iran is true and I cannot confirm them, then that might be the reason why the administration postponed our classified briefing today.

Senate Democrats fought tooth and nail to keep public lands in public hands because these lands belong to everyone—not just the privileged few.

Republicans tried to rip away hundreds of millions of acres of public land—not to help families, not to solve real problems—but to hand yet another gift to the wealthy and well-connected.

These attacks are also devastating our economy. With fewer reproductive healthcare protections, fewer women are participating in the workforce.

The high court's June 2022 ruling will go down in history as one of the worst, most harmful, most regressive decisions in modern history.

The last minute postponement was just a dereliction of their duty to let the Congress know.

I said, 'Can you give me some details?' They said, 'No.' That's the extent of the briefing I've gotten.

If they want to come up on Thursday in addition, not in replacement of this [briefing], that's OK.

This wasn't just an obscure and damaging policy—it was an assault on the places where generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, fished, camped, and connected with the natural beauty of our country.

no president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war.

president Trump violated the War Powers Act when he bombed Iran.

It was nothing short of an assault on the system of checks and balances that has anchored this nation since its founding, and a brazen attempt crown Trump king.

Senate Republicans tried to write Donald Trump’s contempt for the courts into law — gutting judicial enforcement, defying the Constitution, and bulldozing the very rule of law that forms our democracy.

No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy.

The Trump administration should not make the same mistake it made this weekend by launching strikes without giving any details to Congress.

No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy.

we will not rubberstamp military intervention that puts the United States at risk.

cuts to Medicaid are deeper and more devastating than even the Republican House’s disaster of a bill.

What the senior senator from Utah posted after the shooting was reckless and beneath the dignity of his office.

The kind of rhetoric that we hear some in the hard right use.

I was deeply disappointed and sickened to see a member of this chamber use the tragedy in Minnesota to take cheap political shots.

We have to reevaluate how we are protecting members of Congress and staffs in the face of rising threats, but we also have to look at protecting all American people as that happens.

Overturning Citizens United is probably more important than any other single thing we could do to preserve this great and grand democracy.