The international community cannot remain silent in the face of these human rights abuses.

We cannot allow the narrative of 'transformation through education' to overshadow the reality of oppression.

Senator Merkley ultimately utilized much of my memo in a report on the destruction of the asylum program.

Canadian historian Michael Bliss wrote in his 1982 book, ``The Discovery of Insulin,'' that ``[w]ith insulin, the stone was rolled away, and diabetes became a matter of the quality of life, not speed of death.'' For thousands of years…

I am honored to join my colleague who has led this battle for the vision of the For the People Act that will restore the ``we the people'' democratic republic. Here we are on the floor of the Senate. It is an institution that once…

I am deeply saddened to hear the news on Monday of the death of our former colleague, Kay Hagan. She is the sister, the wife, and the aunt of Navy veterans; daughter- in-law to a two-star Marine Corps general; daughter of a former Florida…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Antonio Pena Anaya, be granted privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

thank you and a huge thanks to my colleague for not just deferring to me to make comments, which I am going to make very brief, but also for the leadership of the subcommittee and the bipartisan work. It is the way the Senate should work…

I come to the floor today to recognize Kaitlin Gaffney, a longtime member of my Senate team who, after nearly 11 years, is leaving to start a new chapter in her life. Kaitlin has been a key part of Team Merkley since our earliest days. In…

I ask unanimous consent for my intern, Allie Kirchoff, to have privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

it is with a heavy heart today that I honor the incredible life of Mary Gautreaux, an Oregonian who never stopped fighting to make our State and our world a better place for all. Throughout her decades-long career working with my colleague…

I am rising to speak tonight as a Senator that comes from a passionate Second Amendment State. The citizens of my home State of Oregon value their guns for collecting, for target practice, for personal defense, and, certainly, for hunting…

The President wants this as a political issue. He's not about to start solving the problem.

The real President Trump is the one who is, has this underlying strategy of inflicting trauma on refugees, on children to discourage immigration. And that is just a dark and evil policy that we need to change.

But the President is not trying to fix it he is trying to aggravate it for political purposes. He is using children as political pawns and that's wrong.

Can you imagine the terror you have as a child? Your parents are suddenly gone and you don't have a place to go home to? What does it mean for your life?

The administration is conducting its immigration policy and strategy that traumatizes children without careful planning and perhaps with a lot of callousness perhaps incompetence and possibly both.

It just re-evokes the factors that we saw in spades with the administration down on the border, ripping children out of their parents' arms.

I ask unanimous consent that my fellow, Dan Becerra, have privileges of the floor for the balance of his fellowship and that Luchanna Sagoo, my intern, have privileges for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

I rise in recognition of a friend and colleague, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, on this special occasion of his 250th speech in his ``Time to Wake up'' series, a series of speeches, as far as I know, unparalleled in the history of the Senate…

as our Founders worked to design what would become the Constitution of the United States, they had certain core principles in mind--certain principles that were the exact opposite of the way government worked in Europe. They did not want…

I rise to recognize two members of my team who are leaving the Senate after their years of dedicated and important work. Becca Ward will be leaving on August 7, and Meredith Booker will be leaving on Friday, July 26. Both of them joined my…

tonight I am rising to talk about legislation that I have introduced that now has 40 Senators sponsoring it. It is called the Stop Cruelty to Migrant Children Act. I think all of us in America have seen so many stories of refugee children…

I'm just like, `What world are they living in?'

From every direction you see that the children are being treated in a horrific manner.