This bill offers childcare; educational opportunities from pre-K to post-grad; and the first belated, substantial response to the climate crisis. My top healthcare priority is providing assistance to 2 million Texans out of 6 million…

Today, I am voting to approve legislation to cover massive costs incurred by the self-described ``King of Debt'' for wasteful tax expenditures that we, Democrats, strongly opposed. While his other claim to be ``a stable genius'' never had…

``Let Freedom Ring'' has been replaced by Texas Republicans with ``Let vigilantes hunt.'' Neighbors spying on neighbor. Offering $10,000 bounties on a driver, a physician, anyone who offered counsel. So invasive that an Arkansas convict…

If, for example, as happened down in Texas, an MPO arbitrarily provides that a new MPO voting representative gets added any time a new city comes along and surpasses a population of 50,000, but is not providing a voting representative for…

Since they make such important decisions concerning mobility, social and economic opportunity, metropolitan planning organizations across the country have boards that should be fully representative of all those who are served within their…

I thank you very much for accepting the amendment. I think it will be helpful to us here. Much of my concern about this issue arose from the fact that in our area, my hometown of Austin, an effort was made to require in transportation…

President Biden to be focused on the use of diplomacy first and our military as a firm, powerful but final line of defense only when our vital national interests are involved and there is not another alternative.

what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America.

it would be amusing were it not so serious to listen to our Republican colleagues talk about their concern of debt these days when they express no concerns about debt when the leader of their cult, Donald Trump, proclaimed himself the king…

While hundreds of millions of Americans have benefited from the Affordable Care Act, I represent many who have not.

What our colleagues should be doing is coming together to work with us to ensure the permanent security of Medicare. Medicare works, but after 55 years, it needs some updates. It has not provided adequate protection against pharmaceutical…

55 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson overcame sustained Republican opposition to enact Medicare. It has been a literal lifeline for millions. Those who suffered without healthcare before Medicare now have access to a family physician…

I rise on behalf of those who teach, who heal, who protect, who study; for those whose entrepreneurial talent advances our economy--for all of our Dreamers. They have so much to contribute and they are American in every way except on…

A movement led by the Texas Council on Family Violence, and so many other advocates, first won passage of the Violence Against Women Act and brought the National Domestic Violence Hotline to Austin, which has now offered 5 million…

This bill simply requires that the background check for a purchase that occurs within a gun shop applies outside a gun shop. That doesn't take away anyone's right, but it does protect us from convicted criminals, fugitives, and family…

Rescue and relief for those awaiting lifesaving vaccines, for struggling small businesses, indebted families about to lose their home, for impoverished children, and for those who are eager to get their children back in school, survival…

Death and destruction at this Capitol from recent Trump-instigated violence shows the result of insufficient policing. The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and in my area, Mike Ramos and Javier Ambler, and too many more, from…

Today's bill favors turning out the votes, not throwing them out. Let's protect American democracy which worships, above all, the voice of the people expressed through free and fair elections; not bowing before the golden idol of one who…

This bill restores guardrails to our democracy that almost went off the rails as Republicans pledged their loyalty to the cult of Donald Trump. Republicans have long found success creatively suppressing the votes, restrictive voter ID…

``Reconciliation'' defines not only this budget process, but, to most Americans, it simply means that you come together to overcome prior differences. President Biden has made clear his desire to reconcile, to come together. We welcome…

For years Donald Trump has honored thugs worldwide who suppress democracy. For months, with a daily diet of lies, he has made clear his refusal to accept any election in which he was not the winner. After failing completely in his repeated…

I join today in support of the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act to ensure that individuals diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) receive the financial support they need and for which they have already qualified. I…

Even during these challenging times, most Americans recognize that when they get home, they find a habitable place and the lights come on with the flip of a switch. But preserving future American energy independence and energy efficiency…

As Congress considers new investments in research and development, let's direct our efforts where we can achieve the greatest savings and the greatest efficiency. While carbon capture and storage, the process of capturing carbon dioxide…

Saturday Libby and I joined many at the Supreme Court to honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a true defender of our most fundamental rights at a time when this President and his enablers increasingly threaten the very preservation of our…