the growth in healthcare spending has been one of the primary drivers on the spending side.

Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, very wealthy individuals.

Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you can see has been fairly constant over all of those years.

Democrats have always pledged to protect and preserve Social Security and Medicare.

And healthcare spending has gone up even more. Does that also relate to an aging population?

CBO's long-term budget projections back in 2012 were the last time that CBO showed debt declining as a share of GDP.

My Republican colleagues complain that I, and my Democratic colleagues, aren't concerned about our nation's fiscal situation...

Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than it was projected to be in 2012?

Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I kind of doubt it.

Your mention of can we agree to a debt to GDP level provokes me to remember my work with Chairman Enzi to find a safe debt to GDP level, a glide slope to get there, and guardrails to assure that we're not cheating on it, and I think that…

the prospect of that creating a shock to the economy along the lines of the 2008 shock or worse, have been repeatedly raised in this Committee

Helping the wealthy avoid taxes is such an infatuation that House Republicans even brought the United States to the brink of default trying to prevent the IRS from cracking down on wealthy tax cheats.

Indeed, CBO found that actual and projected federal health spending over the 2010 to 2033 period was $6.3 trillion, $6.3 trillion lower than predicted, which I attribute to improving quality, and moving to value-based care.

I am back with my trusty, battered ``Time to Wake Up'' chart, and the last time I spoke on the Senate floor on this subject, I reviewed some recent warnings from the Economist magazine, from the Potsdam Institute, and from the consulting…

first, let me thank the chairman of our committee for attempting to bring this bill to the floor and to get us on it. Even though the Republicans have objected to Supreme Court ethics, it is important for us to continue to make the effort…

I think that the attorney general has an obligation to follow the direction of the president of the United States when the president of the United States asserts executive privilege.

I don't think the fact that somebody is the president's son entitles them to be out from under rule of law.

Every other government official is subject to fact-finding, even the president had to submit to an interview about the documents in his garage. These justices won't allow themselves to be subjected to honest fact-finding.

And with that, I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

as the presiding officer knows, I have come regularly to the floor to discuss multiple aspects of the scheme run by a bunch of rightwing billionaires to capture and control the Supreme Court and how that has come to affect so many…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Rhode Island.

There's a legendary story of the cloak room calling Ted Kennedy and saying, we need you on this vote.

I emphasize explicitly and unequivocally that human caused climate change poses significant risks to society and the environment.

I emphasize explicitly and unequivocally that human caused climate change poses significant risks to society and the environment.

I think the question is, how many MAGA battle flags does the Supreme Court justice have to fly until the rest of the court takes it seriously.