I further ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 19; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Murkowski, to whom I express gratitude for her courtesy. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore…

This is about the tax injustices that are presently baked into our Tax Code.

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

I think we have a problem of economic injustice.

One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals.

The tax-dodging also blows a hole in our federal budget.

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

This combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.

I ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so…

So this combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.

I think there's an enormous opportunity here.

I think we have a problem of an unfortunate circularity between wealth and political influence.

To run an unjust tax system that creates bigger deficits for the sake of wealthy political influence is not a good place for the United States of America to be.

Simple fairness is reason enough to end this rigged system.

Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion.

I think we have a problem of economic injustice.

You're providing them better health care.

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience.

One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals.

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.

Letting wealthy business owners avoid Medicare taxes on their full income costs Medicare $250 billion in lost revenue.

Letting multinational corporations shift profits to tax havens leaves a trillion dollar bill for everyone else to pay.