Well, you say, maybe employers ought to increase wages.

Well, it`s a race we could win. And we ran with a sharp dignity of work message. You never compromise of marriage equality or choice or opposition to the NRA. You talk about minimal wage and dignity of work and the overtime rule and…

But it also means its real opportunity for us to win.

They don`t like social insurance. They don`t like Medicare. You`re paying to get help when you need it. They don`t like social security. You pay in and you get when you need it. They don`t like unemployment insurance. You pay in and get…

I mean, that`s really what this race has become. It`s just -- it`s just (INAUDIBLE) but it`s just something to watch in Ohio. The standards are already going far right. And the extremism and just getting in line for trump in ways that…

But it`s what we`re doing internationally going back to the Paris Climate Accords, rejoined the World Health Organization, engaging in international public health, and listening to the WHO and listening to the CDC.

I think that is -- that is fascinating now. And it`s what -- some of us have wanted Democratic presidents to do for a long time is stand up and talk about taxing the rich, point out those 55 or 60 companies in Fortune 500 that have paid…

I hope we do. But so far, the protecting our right to organize the pro act, which is one of the four or five most important things we should be doing, we should be raising the minimum wage, we should pass the pro act.

today we mark Workers Memorial Day, when we honor and remember workers who have laid down their lives on the job. I have worn on my lapel since I was in the House, a pin depicting a canary in a bird cage given to me at a Workers Memorial…

I have committed, as you and I have talked about many times, to working together to protect and expand Social Security.

reserving the right to object, no serious economists across the ideological spectrum are concerned about inflation right now. No one is hiding information at the White House. I am in meetings all the time with White House officials talking…

I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I want to make sure that whoever receives benefits from us is entitled to them.

Instead of finding ways to deny disability benefits, I want to see you helping people successfully get the benefits they are eligible for.

I expect you to double down on efforts to improve relationships with your employee unions.

We've created an economy that runs by Wall Street's rules.

Yet when the financial industry cost millions of Americans their homes and their jobs, gutted communities of color, and preyed on towns and neighborhoods around the country--they got a bailout.

Far too many of those workers died because they didn't have basic protections--they didn't have a Government that was on their side.

We need leadership that believes in the promise of Social Security, not leadership that has actively worked to dismantle it.

When companies lay off workers or cut their pay, their stock prices go up.

the term 'dignity of work' first came to me... All work has dignity, whether done by a street sweeper or Michelangelo or Beethoven.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

If you believe in the dignity of work, you work hard, you ought to be able to get ahead.

Under President Bush, the OCC described these rent-a-bank schemes as 'abusive.'

That the OCC would open up our communities to more exploitation when we are suffering already so severely from COVID-19 is immoral; it is disgraceful that the OCC would give predatory lenders a way to charge 200 to 400 percent interest and…