let me be brief here. This legislation that we have been discussing passed the House of Representatives early this year, and it was unanimous. So for people who are following the debate, every single Republican--everyone in the other…

before he leaves the floor, let me just thank the Senate majority leader. We have talked about this often. And I am particularly struck by the readings of the Founding Fathers because several of the Founding Fathers seem to think that a…

as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be discharged from further consideration and the Senate proceed to S. Res. 74. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by…

for more than 40 years, this body has been passing resolutions condemning the Iranian Government's persecution of the Baha'is. This nightmare is not going away. In fact, the government of Iran has only intensified its ruthless agenda…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 3 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

while he is on the floor, let me thank Senator Padilla for our partnership, these many months, and also to Senator Cassidy. And we Westerners have really strong views about this because the fires of the West today are not your…

I take seriously the stories of so many people who have had their lives torn apart by nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII), and I share their urgency in addressing this scourge. To that end, I was happy to see the Senate pass the SHIELD…

I rise on behalf of myself and Senator Crapo, speaking as chair and ranking member of the Finance Committee. Today, we commend Harold Hirsch on his service to the U.S. Congress for over 47 years. Mr. Hirsch served as a lawyer and tax…

I want to ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for up to 5 minutes before the vote on Judge Kasubhai. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

the Kasubhai nomination, which we will vote on in just a few minutes, is deeply personal to me. My parents fled the Nazis in the thirties, and not all of our family got out. We lost family at Auschwitz, at Kristallnacht, and we saw…

I certainly have no sympathy for leakers, and I want to make a couple of points to make it clear why I am going to oppose this proposal. First of all, the biggest leakers of taxpayer data are the big tax software companies. We never hear a…

let me go to the policy issue. I know this is very important to my colleague from Florida. And when families are wrestling with this issue, they have the sympathies of all of us. Here is what concerns me: Families struggling to afford IVF…

I am announcing my intent to object to any unanimous consent request to proceed to the nomination of John Bradford Wiegmann to be the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), subject to the Department…

the number one issue in the confirmation hearings for the Commissioner was this overpayment question.

We want to work in a bipartisan way on both of the big issues of our time.

I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.

The American people do not want to see that happen to the Social Security guarantee.

We Democrats know that the ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

If Republicans want to come up with a proposal that restores solvency while avoiding benefit cuts, as the standing ovation at the State of the Union promised, Democrats are all ears.

I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

We want to work in a bipartisan way on both of the big issues of our time.

I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle

it would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.