I referred to many of these changes as being done in the spirit of Jim Crow laws that existed prior to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act.

What is the purpose of this effort to undermine election systems when they are actually working well?

We have zero cases in Oregon and Oregon initiated vote by mail.

I was thinking about how historians look at an 80 year period in which the only thing that was blocked by extended debate in the filibuster were laws to protect the voting rights and political power of black Americans.

Is the argument about or the discussion of election fraud--the cover story today for blocking the political power of black Americans and other citizens from minority communities.

Yes, it`s very troubling for our democracy. You think about that ancient saying about the senate`s the world`s greatest deliberative body, yet we have evolved through a change of culture where the minority set on obstruction has veto power…

I come to the floor today to introduce the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2022. Of course, that is the fiscal year that began on October 1. Like my colleagues on the…

on behalf of myself and Mr. Wicker, I rise today to recognize and celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Emergency Nurses Association. Made up of 51,000 members from all across the globe, the Emergency Nurses Association, or ENA, is the…

Build Back Better invests in families, the foundations for our families to thrive--in education, in childcare, in healthcare, and in housing. So much is needed. It makes huge investments critical to taking on the biggest challenge facing…

We cannot do it alone. We know China contributes 30 percent of greenhouse emissions and many other countries make big contributions as well.

American values of democracy, respect for human rights, and private enterprise remain the only viable path for sustainable, inclusive development and poverty reduction.

If confirmed, I will continue to support policies that show our unwavering support for the Uyghur community, as well as for people in Hong Kong, including humanitarian pathways to the United States.

As President Biden has indicated, this is a key issue for this administration. It is the biggest existential threat of our time.

I would really love to see champions in our diplomatic team push for an official determination of genocide in Myanmar because the actions against the Rohingya fully justify it, just horrific activities.

You do not want a politician to make a unilateral decision while those investigations are going on.

I believe that we need to be using the Asian Development Bank as a tool to help countries move to a clean growth path.

my preference would certainly have been for the Olympic Committee to say China had failed to follow its 2015 promises on human rights and that the Olympics were to be moved.

But it is an issue of which the planet cannot succeed without U.S. leadership, and so I am hoping that every time decisions come up one will remember we are in a code red situation and need to pivot quickly.

It is very important to the checks and balances of our government to be able to get information and insight from our key representatives in the executive branch.

I think that in this time of national reckoning with the challenge of Black Lives Matter...

We received on the committee a letter from a dozen aldermen... asking we take a close look at the question of systemic racism.

Senator Merkley. Hearing none, those are entered into the record.

I do know that President Biden has allowed Hong Kong residents to stay in the United States on a lengthier basis than they normally would because of the fear of persecution should they go back, given what has happened in Hong Kong.

China is one of the worst abusers of religious freedom in the world.

I have seen firsthand China's blatant disregard for the Uighur community, their oppression, the genocide that is occurring there.