Pat Ryan: “The President is holding the defense budget hostage for higher taxes and more spending.”

the fact that zero dollars from this huge, multibillion-dollar plan are going to go to improve service to my constituents is incredibly frustrating, and, I think, a significant public policy failure.

I rise today to honor Elder Jim Childs, a pillar of our Kingston community, for his decades of service to St. Clara's Church, to his and my home city of Kingston, and to families across the Hudson Valley. Elder Childs was born and raised…

You don’t cower in front of a bully. You punch them right in the mouth & expose them for the fraud they are.

This is a pattern. If we zoom out across all these nominees, you have Matt Gaetz, you have now Hegseth, you have the president-elect himself and a whole host of others with long standing patterns of disrespect for women.