today I wish to celebrate a milestone for Rhode Island's oldest Black church. In August, the Congdon Street Baptist Church on the East Side of Providence celebrated its bicentennial. From its inception at the nearby African Union…

We are here tonight when we should not be, because the epidemic, the pageant of gun violence in this country should have been addressed by us by now. We have not acted. We have not acted in large part because we are engaged in a bizarre…

I am here today on the Senate floor for ``Time to Wake Up'' speech No. 253. If you felt like the heat this summer was particularly brutal, you were not imagining things. July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to NOAA. The…

It's not just our allowing their use of the rule of law to protect their ill-gotten gains.

I think there is a clash of civilizations, and it's between rule of law civilization and kleptocracy, autocracy, and criminality.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 25 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

as the Presiding Officer knows, I have often spoken about how climate change is affecting Rhode Island. Rising sea levels will remake my State's map. Warming seas are shifting our traditional fisheries away from Rhode Island. A hotter…

I thank the Presiding Officer. I appreciate that courtesy. Blocking action on climate has been the central focus of the Chamber's campaign spending. It ran this ad in Pennsylvania in 2016. Two moms watch their children on a playground. One…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for an additional 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the distinguished Senator from West Virginia for her work on the highway bill that we voted out of the Environment and Public Works Committee today and on our industrial emissions bill and on carbon capture. It has been a terrific…

I would note that if we look back to 2009, there are some very important signs of optimism. On the legislative side, Senator Markey--then-Representative Markey with his colleague Representative Waxman--successfully ushered, with…

may I propose to my wonderful colleague, the Senator from Massachusetts, that the Good Lord forbid that I have to get to 500 such speeches before we solve this problem.

let me first thank my friend Senator Schatz for his incredibly kind remarks. He is an outstanding colleague. We work together extremely well. He brings a good cop ``aloha'' sensibility to a conversation, whereas I tend to lean more toward…

for a long time, people opposed to climate action said that tackling climate change would be too costly, would harm economic growth, would be bad for American businesses, and would kill jobs. It turns out these were phony arguments peddled…

it is a great honor to join my senior colleague, Senator Reed, on the Senate floor to remember someone we both knew very well, Jim Taricani, a legendary investigative reporter, whom not only we knew well but so many Rhode Islanders knew…

we have just heard two colleagues make convincing and compassionate arguments for putting a price on carbon, the central protection from climate crisis. A price on carbon like we propose would dramatically lower emissions and put us on a…

Well, clearly, when it comes to climate change, this administration is embarrassing itself and our country with the factually and scientifically preposterous claims that they make, and the nonsense denial that they continue to propagate is…

let me conclude by thanking Senator Blumenthal for his leadership on this issue. Our fishing communities have a powerful voice in Senator Blumenthal. He has worked with them for many, many years in the Senate and before, when he was…

it is a great honor and pleasure to join the senior Senator from Connecticut on the floor today. We were both U.S. attorneys. We were attorneys general together. We now serve in the Senate together, and I consider him a friend outside of…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Connecticut and I be allowed to engage in a brief colloquy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

on rollcall vote 176, I voted nay. It was my intention to vote yea. I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to correct my vote since it will not affect the outcome. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

it is my great honor to join Senator Brown of Ohio here on this 50th anniversary. The image of a river aflame is engraved in our collective memory. For Ohioans, for Senator Brown, and for all others who care about our water and…

I came here to make my climate remarks, but I can't resist the opportunity--both as a Senator who actually gets quite a lot of bipartisan legislation passed with my Republican friends but also somebody who sits on the Judiciary…

I come to the floor of the Senate today, as I do every year at this time, to remember what Rhode Island abolitionist Frances Whipple McDougall called ``the first blood [drawn] in the Revolution.'' This past Sunday marked the 247th…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 247th Anniversary of the ``Gaspee'' Raid