The vast majority, nearly all of House Democrats are in support of this president’s broadly supported economic agenda.

When you see people opposing simply the ability of Medicare, the federal government, to negotiate down the price of prescription drugs, something that is supported overwhelmingly by both Democrats and Republicans, it’s clear then that…

We need to keep the universal child care provisions that we passed out of the House Education and Labor Committee in the final reconciliation bill.

It’s a shame that so much of this drama has been played out in the public square, so to speak. But I do believe, as with the American Rescue Plan, and as with other things, that we will rally around an agenda that allows us to meet this…

This is what we can do under unified control of the federal government. And this is what Democrats, I would submit, will do in the coming days.

We’re talking about the expansion of Medicare. We’re talking about universal child care. We’re talking about climate action to prevent another Hurricane Ida from devastating communities throughout America.

Of course, if he did, he would be fighting alongside people like myself to pass a $15 minimum wage.

Ted Cruz is as cruel as they come. And he has constantly debased himself in this area of public service.

It remains to be seen whether just a couple of Democratic senators will rise to the occasion and help us overcome the filibuster to pass any number of pieces of legislation, including those economic in nature, to actually allow people to…

I have very publicly called on the White House to help us get rid of [the filibuster].

I look at a state like New York, my home state, which is sitting on more than $2 billion of money that Congress, people like myself, have already appropriated through legislation for this purpose.