continuing the reading of the letter from the Birmingham jail. I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white…

I thank my colleague from the neighboring State, Senator Toomey, for joining us. I thank all of my colleagues who were here today, Senators Warnock and Murkowski, Toomey and Cassidy, Cortez Masto, and Padilla for joining to read these…

it is an honor to join my colleagues of both parties, starting with Reverend Warnock and five--two other Democrats and three other Republicans on the floor today to read one of the great pieces of writing of the 20th century, Dr. King's…

It has never been easy with any administration, by budget time and other things, for GME, for Children's Hospitals GME. So we are counting on you to be a little bit different and a lot better than some of your predecessors, Ms. Palm.

Ms. Palm, will you commit to working with Senator Casey and me and the future head of HRSA to make sure that the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program and training for the next generation of pediatricians remains a…

Will you commit to working with my staff and others on this committee to create and strengthen initiatives across CMS to address social determinants of health and reduce health disparities?

The history of institutional racism within our health-care system continues to affect health outcomes for communities of color.

Thank you for always raising oral health and dental health, and that is so, so important, both for Medicare, obviously, and Medicaid, but especially Medicaid and the work that he has done.

If confirmed, will you work with me to ensure all Medicare beneficiaries, whether they are in traditional Medicare or enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, have access to the same benefits and out-of-pocket protections?

I appreciate Senator Toomey's comments and the spirit in which they were delivered. I rise to urge my colleagues to support President Biden's nominee to be Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler. In March, Mr…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:26 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 12 noon…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until noon, Tuesday, April 13; that following the prayer and the pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…

on Friday, Amazon, one of the world's largest corporations, successfully crushed the most recent union drive at one of their warehouses, where workers were organizing for a voice on the job. Let's be clear: This was never a fair fight…

You have my commitment to get you the resources you need--I know Chairman Wyden cares about that--to hold corporations accountable for taxes they owe;

The expectation from me and from Senator Bennet, especially on this committee, and other members of Congress, is the distribution will start going out monthly starting in July.

I want to address the alarmism we hear from some of my friends across the aisle about improper payments with the EITC and the CTC.

thanks to Senator Booker. I will be very brief. I want to hear from Senator Bennet, and I know that the Presiding Officer is going to switch chairs and be out here speaking on this. I am so appreciative of the Presiding Officer, who won…

before we hear from Senator Booker and Senator Bennet and Senator Warnock on one of the best things this Senate has done in my career, that being the extension of the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit, I just want to say a…

I am working with Senator Mark Warner from Virginia on this committee on a framework that will get rid of incentives in the tax code to shift jobs and factories abroad, reward investing in American jobs, and make multinational corporations…

I sometimes refer to this as an 'America last' tax bill.

these tax changes that Chairman Wyden is fighting for are so important.

the 2017 tax law which Senator Wyden and I and others on this committee, the Democratic side, opposed for many reasons, was a giveaway to the wealthiest people in the country

If there is any good news in this it is that recently, for the first time after 20 years of Republicans cutting funding, and then banning funding to first CDC and then NIH to research this public health crisis of gun ownership and gun…

We put some money in the bipartisan bill at the end of the year, and then put a bigger chunk of money into the still bipartisan bill.

We know that thousands, probably way more, probably tens or hundreds of thousands of servicemembers and veterans have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or their rentals, rental payments.