I rise in opposition to the Romney amendment. First, colleagues, this amendment would be a drastic cut to the relief in the bill. Specifically, it would limit the number of firefighters, municipal workers, and teachers who would actually…

on this side, our goal has been to secure the strongest possible protections for jobless Americans that could pass the Senate. This amendment has two essential features that make it far better for working families than the Portman…

to speak in opposition, the Capito motion to commit the bill to the Finance Committee instructs the committee to do two things. The first is to dedicate funds to pay for bipartisan transportation legislation. The other is to cut the…

30 seconds? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon is recognized for 30 seconds without objection.

right now, the Senate is debating, having been started by our colleague Senator Sanders, whether it is OK to pay starvation wages in the United States. You heard that right, starvation wages. Receiving that starvation wage, single moms are…

yesterday, the Senate learned that there were 745,000 new unemployment claims--higher than the worst week of the great recession. Yet the Portman amendment is a double whammy on workers--a much faster cutoff of benefits and absolutely no…

I call up amendment No. 1378 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Oregon [Mr. Wyden] proposes…

I do. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon is recognized for 1 minute.

later today the Senate will vote on an amendment put forward by Senator Carper and myself dealing with an extension of enhanced unemployment benefits. Some Members of the Senate wanted to hold the enhanced weekly benefit at $300 per week…

I rise in opposition to this amendment. Colleagues, the underlying bill has significant improvements in the child tax credit. All told, the bill cuts child poverty in half. But this amendment would set us back. True, it expands the child…

Section 605 of the State and Local section of the American Rescue Plan requires further explanation on its intent. Below is the salient language of Section 605, Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund: ``(b) Authority to Make…

first of all, with respect to the facts about unemployment, every week--every week since last March, unemployment claims have been higher than the worst week of the great recession. And the fact is, we have got millions of Americans who…

I ask unanimous consent for 6 minutes, evenly divided, to discuss this amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Oregon.

Can I have 30 seconds to briefly respond? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

First of all, we can't even really determine the formula that is used under the Romney amendment. It is clear to us there are going to be costs to States as a result of this legislation. Colleagues, the reality is, the pandemic is a public…

I am going to ask for 15 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Senator Wyden has 45 seconds remaining.

and colleagues, the number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents and staff is tragic. That is why President Biden's and the Democrats' plan goes forward with an investment in preventing nursing home infections and deaths…

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Congressional Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: To the Secretary of the Senate: PN78-2, the nomination of Xavier…

I believe you are going to do that with Secretary Granholm, and that is why I am going to be supporting your nomination.

There are 44 separate tax breaks for energy. Many of those breaks date back to yesteryear, and I have an effort to collapse those 44 into 3.

We are in the midst of a clean energy revolution. It's incredibly exciting to see the price points and where they've come on solar, on wind, on a range of clean energy technologies.

Last year, Mr. Turk, wildfires hit Oregon like a wrecking ball. And just last month, a winter storm left thousands of Oregonians with no power.

The challenges that we face in the U.S. on energy, on climate change, are too important not to base our decision-making on solid facts, on solid data, on solid analysis.

10 years ago Bahraini citizens joined many others across the Middle East in what became known as the Arab Spring, an eruption of popular protest and a call for reform and democracy that spread across the region. In Bahrain, the Arab Spring…

We basically said if these companies are selling things like insulin and they are jacking up the prices again and again and again, which they have, they basically have to make rebates if they ever raise prices above inflation.