I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be discharged from further consideration of S. 534 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The bill clerk…

Our coasts are in dire distress, and the Army Corps blunders on, just completely obtuse to that risk.

I have been hollering at the Army Corps for years about your flood and coastal damage reduction fund.

We are looking at 9 feet of sea level rise in Rhode Island by the end of the century.

I want finito. I want it stopped. I want some balance.

Rhode Island is the original home of the textile industry.

Delivery system reform is going to be more important than ever.

I won't speak long, but I wanted to echo the comments of our distinguished Judiciary chairman, because I have had a similar experience. As we were going through COVID, I was hearing from our domestic violence groups in Rhode Island that…

I am delighted to follow the majority leader and his strong remarks about the beginning of the process of passing S. 1, not only to deal with the question of voting rights but to deal with the question of the dark money plague that is…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). Without objection, it is so ordered. U.S. Supreme Court

I want to speak briefly this evening about S. 1, the Senate version of H.R. 1, the democracy reform bill that we are going to be considering moving to proceed to this week, and I hope we will be able to show a unified Democratic Caucus…

I know we intend to.

I think the global minimum tax agreement is a really big deal.

We really need to get that money out of politics, and this is an important area.

I do not think that a carbon price is 'the' solution, but I think it is an irreplaceable part of the solution.

We have seen political abuse. It is, in my view, contrary to law. It has been influenced heavily by special interests, and the result has been corrosive to democracy.

I’m confident that we will have them. The reason I’m confident that we will have them is what you just quoted from Jane Mayer’s expose which we know from polling and that is that a conservative tea partier hates special interests…

the Koch brothers and a couple of other creepy right-wing Republican billionaires have basically built out what in the intelligence community you`d call a massive covert operation.

I think he is playing to an audience of a very small group, of big billionaire donors, who have a plan to try to take over as much control of the United States' government as they can.

The House can move, more or less, immediately, to a subpoena.

The increase in telehealth during COVID had kind of a hidden benefit.

I appreciate this hearing very much.

Look, the most important thing to Mitch McConnell is his little reclusive group of billionaire donors. And the most important thing to them is control the Supreme Court that doesn`t have to answer to the voters. So, it will do what they…

You’ve got to demand transparency and fight back and call on leaders of the Democratic Party to ask what their countermeasures are against this big operation.