I ask for 2 minutes, equally divided. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The Republicans yield back their time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Time is yielded back.

There was a time about a year ago when we were together, and we passed a COVID relief bill of $1.9 trillion, 96 to nothing. What happened? You all got it now. So here is what I want you to know. That CARES formula, that bill we passed, had…

the budgetary effects of the pending amendment, 972, offered by Senator Sanders, are merely incidental to the nonbudgetary effects of the amendment. Accordingly, the amendment is extraneous. Therefore, I raise a point of order against this…

a vote-arama is upon us. Stay hydrated. Try to keep good cheer. We are going to have lots of amendments today and kind of talk about where we differ on certain things, which will be good for the country. What I hate the most is that we are…

I will try to be relatively brief here. I understand the bill is being printed now, and we will have a vote here fairly shortly. I just want to set the stage for my view--my point of view. I think I speak for most people in our conference…

Everybody that deals with you on our side has nothing but good things to say.

I just worry that there is a double standard with her that why would we accept the apologies of others, about comments on social media, that, if anything, were more extreme, and not accept Neera Tanden's apologies?

I think every regulation in the country comes across her desk and I want her to assure me that if there is a regulation proposed by the Biden administration that changes Hyde or chips away at it that the statutory provisions prevail.

But the statement that she gave in response to Senator Hawley's question about the Hyde Amendment is troubling to many of our members.

I was in Arizona a couple of weeks ago, and this time this year versus last year there has been almost a 100 percent increase in people coming to our border.

It`s not necessary for everybody to like each other. I actually like President Trump. He`s been very nice to me.

It`s time to get on board and stay on board.

He could have had a bomb, we all could have been killed.

I think you are a highly qualified person for the job.

the budget is basically a process where we take money from people, businesses, corporations, individuals, and we decide what to do with that money.

The minimum wage is part of American business culture.

What we have got to do is find out how to raise it without losing jobs and trying to create job growth, not depress job growth.

if you are running the Sanitary Cafe, you do not have that luxury, because there is just only so much money coming in the door.

Would you support an $11-an-hour minimum wage increase being proposed by Senator Manchin?

I want to congratulate you for your attitude that you have about your employees, and it is a great business you have.

Now is not the time to do this, and I would just ask my Democratic colleagues to think long and hard about what you are doing.

I would just like to get the COVID in a little better spot, and we will sit down and talk.

there is a consequence to flooding the zone with money.

We want to reward hardworking people.