I stand with Senator Sanders and with Senator Murphy as a cosponsor of the legislation before us, S.J. Res. 7, which would remove U.S. Armed Forces from Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. There were 56 Senators who voted in favor of this…

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Menendez's time be reserved; that all other remaining time be yielded back; and that the Senate begin voting on the amendments, as under the previous order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection…

I need to make a few points, and I say these with great respect for my distinguished colleagues on the other side of this issue, with great respect for my colleagues, the Senator from Alaska and the Senator from Idaho, from whom we just…

I want to be very clear about a couple of things. No. 1, the fact that the word ``hostilities''--

I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 7 and that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S.J. Res. 7. I further ask that there be 2 hours of debate…

We have a long way to go to catch up with closing health disparities, based on race and ethnic backgrounds.

Your own Department of Education Office for Civil Rights indicated that students of color are suspended three times more than white students.

I certainly am one who believes that your budget needs to be increased.

This did not amount to quotas. This amounted to providing those tools and guidance to make sure that students' civil rights are protected, and you rescinded that.

We needed the Federal Government to provide that oversight---- of civil rights protection.

Can you commit to increasing the minimum wage? I mean, this would help tremendously.

You need someone to study the trauma associated with children being separated from their parents.

Seventy-five civil rights groups wrote you in January, expressing opposition to the rescission of this guidance.

the point of the Higher Education Act was to increase access to postsecondary education

that kind of shows me where you are going with this, and that is not right, and you know that.

if we are not a priority, we are just not a priority.

We can't wait 2 years to get a report on school desegregation from you.

It is really robbing Peter to pay Paul.

risk-sharing can incentivize institutions to only enroll those students of a certain means

I want to ask you, with the cuts that you are presenting, how are we going to ever achieve parity and how are we ever going to reduce the unemployment and the wage gap in communities of color?

the Trump administration's goal was to deconstruct the administrative state

If this is important, why are you cutting it?

It is outrageous. Your cuts here specifically target students of color.

I don't know how we are going to address age HIV and AIDS when you are going to cut 40 percent of the people who rely on Medicaid.

Why in the world would you blame--and I understand what the rationale was, blaming school shootings, the tragic gun violence that has taken place throughout the country, on the civil rights protections for students of color? It doesn't…