Scrapping USPS' electric vehicles is a lose-lose scenario.

Democrats continue to show up and fight every provision of this Big, Beautiful Betrayal of a bill, because this bill is an attack on workers and families everywhere.

We will make sure the Byrd Rule is followed and review any changes Republicans attempt to make to the bill.

It is not too late to stop these cuts.

Medical debt is a complex problem, but having health insurance coverage makes a measurable difference.

If the Republican reconciliation bill passes these drastic health care cuts into law, working class families across America risk going further into medical debt.

The Trump Administration's 'Polluters over People' agenda is once again threatening our health, this time undermining the chance for all Americans to have a future free of asbestos exposure.

It's long past time for Congress to reassert its constitutional role and prevent another disastrous conflict.

I am going to talk about a different aspect of the reconciliation bill, but before I do so, my heart is with the people of Minnesota, who have lost Melissa and Mark Hortman. Melissa was speaker of the house. As a former speaker of the…

now, turning to an issue that has to be worked out in our U.S. Senate, is the challenge of having honest budget numbers for the conversation over the reconciliation bill. Back in 1974, the Senate and House were alarmed over the growing…

my colleagues will remember the phrase ``Senate pay-as-you-go,'' or better known as pay-go. It was initiated by my colleagues across the aisle to say each bill should be paid for, and they created a point of order to that effect. But this…

I have come to the floor to say I am extremely outraged that the executive branch's security team has shoved a U.S. Senator out of a room, has proceeded to put that U.S. Senator on the ground and to handcuff that Senator. This is what we…

Colleagues, we are at an extraordinary time when there is a ``Government For Sale'' sign on the White House lawn. We have never seen this in the history of the United States of America. President Trump is engaged in an extraordinary level…

we are living in a time of open government corruption that few of us thought could occur here in the United States of America. We sometimes recognize it and expect it in countries far away where authoritarian figures take a slice of every…

On May 22, I missed rollcall vote No. 277, passage of H. J. Res 88. Had I been present, I would have voted no. Overturning California's Clean Air Act waivers is a climate setback of massive proportions that will delay much-needed actions…

I have witnessed starvation up close. Many years ago, I was visiting Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in Calcutta. The room had a series of cots, filled with men. There was a men's side and a women's side, and I was on the men's side…

colleagues, using the Congressional Review Act to overturn waivers puts polluters in charge of government policy. In 1970, Congress passed the Clean Air Act. The law explicitly states that individual States like California can enact…

The spirit of the Constitution was that no one elected would be selling influence to anyone because it’s to be government by and for the people.

the motto of the State of Oregon is ``She flies with her own wings.'' I can't think of a better description for my State director Jessica Stevens. After more than 12 years with Team Merkley, I have come to the Senate floor today to bid her…

Access to the White House shouldn't be up for sale to the highest bidder!! This kind of blatant corruption takes a sledgehammer to public trust—we need to add my End Crypto Corruption Act to the GENIUS Act NOW!

Currently, people who wish to cultivate influence with the president can enrich him personally by buying cryptocurrency he owns or controls.

our Constitution starts out with the three words ``We the People,'' and they are written in supersize font to tell you that that is what the core of our democracy is all about-- or, as Lincoln so well summarized, government of, by, and for…

I appreciate the Senator's speech in laying this out. I am going to address another aspect of the first 100 days, which is about the phenomenal strategy of President Trump to undermine our Constitution; to undermine the separation of…

I have a question for my colleague from Massachusetts, if she would yield for a question.

In your knowledge of American history, has there ever been a Presidential first 100 days that showed this level of corruption that we are witnessing with this administration?