I am here for my 197th ``Time to Wake Up'' speech. My poster board is getting a little dog-eared, but we keep moving doggedly along. Last week, I spoke about corporate America outsourcing its lobbying to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce--a…

I think it is important for Americans to get a sense of how things are going in their democracy, to have a fair report of how much the highest-income earners are actually paying in taxes.

in that event, let me commence my 196th ``Time to Wake Up'' climate speech. The last year has been a lousy one for environmental policy in the United States. While the rest of the world began implementing the Paris Agreement to reduce the…

before I make my remarks, let me just say that in what we might call the current unpleasantness in Washington, what a pleasant thing it is to be here on the Senate floor and hear the respected chairman of the Senate Finance Committee say…

indisputably, Vladimir Putin conducted a broadly based attack on American democracy and its most important institutions. Tragically, Putin's broadly based attack on American democracy and our institutions is echoed by President Trump's…

a number of my colleagues will be coming to the floor this afternoon to discuss the predicament we face as the Mueller investigation--the special counsel investigation, the Department of Justice--closes in on the Trump White House and the…

one of Rhode Island's contributions to the cultural life of our Nation came from two brothers who grew up in Cumberland, RI, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. The Farrelly brothers did a number of movies. One of them was famously called ``Dumb and…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Russia Investigation

to follow the words of my distinguished colleague from Connecticut, not only are House Republicans--to use his phrase--playing into the hands of the Russians, they are actually playing by the playbook of the Russians. If you understand the…

Senator Blumenthal and I have come to the floor with a shared concern that the raiding parties are circling the Mueller investigation and preparing for an attack on that investigation. We see this with collateral attacks on individual…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for several minutes and then turn the floor over to the Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Blumenthal, and then, thereafter, that we may be permitted to engage in a brief colloquy. The…

I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama. And that is saying a lot.

This will not happen again.

tomorrow the Environment and Public Works Committee will have an opportunity to question Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt at an oversight hearing. Oversight of the executive branch is one of the Senate's great…

I am prepared to deliver remarks, but I see that the majority leader is on the floor, and I do not want to intrude on his desire to take the floor if he wishes. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I thank my good friend from Rhode Island. I will…

I begin today by adding a Rhode Island voice to the chorus of coastal communities around the country standing against President Trump's reckless and unwelcome choice to try to allow oil and gas drilling off of nearly all U.S. coasts. The…

It was cooked up in the laboratories of the Koch brothers and a bunch of other creepy billionaires who want to remake America in Ayn Rand's image.

It includes over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts that are clearly going no place.

I completely disapprove of and will fight to my last breath to prevent attacking Medicare and Medicaid and other Federal programs and taking benefits away from people in order to achieve savings.

We cost a fortune more per capita than any other industrialized country, and we have life expectancy comparable to Chile and the Czech Republic.

We have a ridiculous budget process, and as a result of that, we end up with ridiculous budgets.

Nobody has been more eloquent than Chairman Enzi in understanding how broken our existing budget process is.

We have seen the Budget Committee become 100 percent partisan and zero percent meaningful.

I appreciate very much the Senator's words of goodwill, and it aligns very well with the note of optimism that I want to open on after last night's vote. Last night's vote provoked the first real conversations--the first real, bipartisan…

let me first thank my friend from Oklahoma. We often disagree; indeed, we often violently disagree on matters of environmental issues. But we have been teammates--indeed, close teammates on the chemical safety legislation, which has been…