I very much hope that colleagues will oppose his nomination because he is, essentially, 100 percent on the side of the polluters and not interested in protecting the public health or the public safety or the public's well-being. If you…

I am here now for the 299th time in my effort to alert our somnolent body to the looming dangers of climate change. Since President Trump's inauguration in January, he has embarked upon a series of actions that quite simply defy reality…

Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard.

And you can recognize the picture I just showed you, it is in the article, and it does quite a good job of putting into context this rebellious act by Rhode Island that took place nearly a year before the Boston Tea Party and yet is mostly…

I take the Senate back to June 9 of 1772, and I read from Rory Raven's ``Burning the Gaspee.'' A handful of longboats glided across the water on a moonless night. The men--some at the oars, other nervously fingering muskets or clubs or…

President Trump has ushered America into a golden age of public corruption.

We write to ask whether Treasury has conducted any analyses on the effect cutting up to 40% of the IRS workforce will have on revenue collection, customer service, modernization efforts, and the share of audits comprised of corporations…

the series of votes that we have concluded in the last 24 hours, with the last vote that just concluded, brings to its completion a sad and a sordid moment in the history of the Senate. I want to just wrap up to leave a record of what took…

let me describe what I think is going on here on the Senate floor. Today is an unusual and interesting day. What we understood the plan was, was that the majority was going to move to the Congressional Review Act regarding the California…

notwithstanding the distinguished majority leader's accusations of mendacity and hypocrisy and misrepresentation, the facts at heart here are quite simple: The waiver at issue is not a rule and was never a rule. Thirty years of precedent…

today, the Senate has done something unprecedented. Our actions and the ones that will follow from the procedural steps taken here today, over the next day or so, will change the Clean Air Act, will change the Congressional Review Act…

now this is always good to remember because it wasn't always this way with President Trump. Here in 2009, there was a full-page ad in the New York Times. President Obama was getting ready to send a crew to Copenhagen for the COP, the…

let me start with just a quick overview of the Congressional Review Act which brings us here to the floor today. Under the American legal system, administrative Agencies can make rules, and there is a very robust process for doing so. The…

The problem with your assertion here today is that it is belied by your own employees’ sworn statements in court and by the decision of the Department of Justice to admit that what you say isn’t true.

I join my senior Senator today to honor our friend Dominick Ruggerio, who was both president and the dean of the Rhode Island Senate. President Ruggerio, who passed away last month, was affectionately known as "Donny." He leaves behind his…

Republicans just overruled the Parliamentarian, violated the plain text of the Congressional Review Act, changed the Clean Air Act, and broke the filibuster.

first, both of my colleagues from California are here, and I want to thank them for coming to the floor today to talk about this important matter in which Republicans want to appease their donors, and they want to break basically two…

I am actually happy to yield to Senator Schiff from the California delegation. OK. He is happy with me going, so I will go. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.

I come to the Senate floor today for the 298th time in my ``Time to Wake Up'' speech series to once again call attention to the looming climate calamity. I went last week to the Our Ocean Conference--a conference founded by the United…

In yet another of many attempts to unravel protections for human health and the environment, and in their endless quest to accommodate the country's biggest polluters, Republicans in the Senate are seeking congressional disapproval for…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. H.J. Res. 61

I am pleased to supplement the remarks of our distinguished leader with respect to Social Security. Rhode Island has I believe the largest participation per capita in Social Security in the country. Social Security is what brought American…

And if I can reclaim my time for a moment and ask the Senator another question, it looks to me a bit like, as they are destroying Medicaid--which, as you pointed out, serves a quarter of American households and is essential to most…

let me thank our Democratic leader for that very kind intro. I will confess that I come to the Senate floor today with a pretty heavy heart. The effort that we are engaged in right now is going to be extremely damaging to our country. We…

There is a doctrine or a principle that is kind of a tedious economic term, ``marginal utility of money.'' What it means, in very plain terms, is that if you make $60,000 a year, your last thousand dollars of income is a big deal to you…