this amendment provides reconciliation instructions to three Senate committees for the purpose of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act; in effect, rerunning the same bad movie the Senate has now seen three times. By now…

and colleagues, later this morning, the Senate will be voting on the amendment I am offering to strike what are known as reconciliation instructions from the budget proposal. The reason I will be focused this morning on that is that it is…

how much time remains on our side? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democrats have 4 minutes remaining. Amendment No. 1302

very briefly, I strongly support this amendment, colleagues. The point of this is, this is an amendment that does what the President says he wants to do, which is not give relief to the people at the top, but the reality is, when you look…

some of our Republican colleagues said in the past days, the budget debate is all about getting the tax reform. The fact is, this is a fast lane to a partisan process for dealing with taxes. When it comes to the Republican plan, you get a…

Senators Ron Wyden and Rob Portman are collaborating to work in the Senate Finance Committee aimed at reducing the costs and improving health of Medicare beneficiaries.

I just believe your decision sets a terrible precedent for the committee's current and future work.

I don't like the concept of your office picking and choosing which investigative reports you're going to keep.

today I wish to indulge in a bit of bragging. I know every one of us in this Chamber has that one or two staffers who are the Jacks or Janes of all trades of their operations. My longtime loyal friend and staffer, who has served the great…

You had a civic duty to vote in a place you no longer lived. I just want to make sure I am not hearing it wrong.

This administration, including the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, has fallen short on transparency and consultations with Congress, stakeholders, and the public.

We won't end up with trade deals that benefit all Americans if we can't talk about proposals at town halls.

If confirmed, I commit to strictly and fully enforcing all provisions of title VII, including the Leveling the Playing Field Act.

I believed I had a civic duty to vote in the election, and I believed I still had the ability...

as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, I followed the Senator's comments with respect to taxes and the debate over tax reform with considerable interest. I will just tell you, my goodness, how I wish we could have what…

I did not get a chance to hear the distinguished Democratic leader's remarks, for Chairman Hatch and I were in the Senate Finance Committee. We managed to pass, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, the Children's Health Insurance Program…

Do you think you ought to be held to a different legal standard than any other Virginia or Maryland voter seeking to vote in the 2016 election?

Getting more transparency in our trade policy has been a top priority for me.

I urge the use of Universal Second Factor (U2F) tokens to secure social security accounts.

It is hard to understand how an attorney as accomplished and distinguished as Mr. Gerrish can walk out of his house in Maryland, travel a ways to Virginia, and cast a vote in that State without thinking there just may be an issue.

a week from today, on October 10, the Taiwanese people will celebrate their 106th Taiwanese National Day. I would like to take a few minutes to congratulate my Taiwanese friends on this important occasion. Taiwan has long been a trusted…

The Trump team says their international tax framework is about creating jobs and firing up the country's economic engine, but the details show that's just part of the con job being pulled on the middle class.

The details, however, show it is really a con job on America's middle class.

Now, I am not sure there is a precedent for it. But what I know is, we are going to hear an awful lot of talk about this magical growth fairy.

When Gary Cohn says he has put his first and final offer on the table and we are completely in the dark about details, that is stepping all over the history of successful tax reform, which is to do it in a bipartisan way.