We are working to create a fund, sort of a regional fund, both for training, as Governor DeWine said, and for equipment.

Senator Vance and I are going to make sure that East Palestine is not forgotten--not next week, not in two years, not ever.

this is the most pro-worker, pro-labor administration probably in my lifetime

Senator Vance and I are both here today to urge this committee to embrace the obvious need for safety reform.

I am concerned that the lack of increase in funding further jeopardizes the ability for our country to maintain a robust pediatric workforce.

I wish my colleagues were as interested in tax cheating among billionaires as they are low-income people, but I guess that is just the way politics in 2023 seems to work.

Whose side are you on? Do you stand with corporate lobbyists or do you stand with communities like East Palestine?

Whose side are you on?

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned to convene for a pro forma session, with no business being conducted, at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, March 17, and when the Senate adjourns on Friday…

This debt prioritization sounds like another version of Senator Scott's privatization of Medicare and Social Security.

I understand there are three bills at the desk, and I ask for their first reading en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bills by title for the first time en bloc. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

Bank failures are a painful reminder about the importance of strong safeguards.

Companies followed the Wall Street business model, obsessed with short-term profits, at the expense of everything and everyone else.

Bank failures are a painful reminder about the importance of strong safeguards.

I now ask for a second reading, and I object to my own request, all en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection having been heard, the bills will be read a second time, en bloc, on the next legislative day. ____________________

If Republicans want to extend the Trump tax law, they would have to cut everything else.

The promises pile up, but the numbers do not add up.

I wish my colleagues were as interested in tax cheating among billionaires as they are low-income people, but I guess that is just the way politics in 2023 seems to work.

Companies followed the Wall Street business model, obsessed with short-term profits, at the expense of everything and everyone else.

When we let corporations run the economy, workers and their families always, always pay the price--whether it's for the greed of Norfolk Southern or Silicon Valley Bank, or Big Pharma or Big Oil.

When we let corporations run the economy, workers and their families always, always pay the price--whether it's for the greed of Norfolk Southern or Silicon Valley Bank, or Big Pharma or Big Oil.

The numbers do not add up; not even close.

If Republicans want to extend the Trump tax law, they would have to cut everything else.

I hope my colleagues will put partisanship aside--as Senator Vance and I are doing on rail safety--to stand with the people we serve.

I, first, want to compliment the President pro tempore of the Senate and her leadership here for now 30-plus years and her courage. She saw January more up close than most of us did. I say to the Senator: I believe you were with your…