Thank you, Madam Chair, and I appreciate you having this hearing.

the Constitution is in danger because I'm in charge.

We must make clear to Russia and any other adversaries they will face consequences for this malicious cyber activity.

And many of them in Rhode Island. There are two other comments I want to make. One was, again--both of our political parties sometimes go a little bit awry. But one of the things that John Warner did--he didn't need to do this. He was a…

Thank you, Senator Reed. I see Senator Thune is here. I will be very brief. You mentioned, Senator Reed, about the occasional twinkle in his eye. I am not sure, again, here is the right time or place to tell the stories, but that twinkle…

I rise to mourn the passing of a statesman, a patriot, a mentor, a friend, and someone who loved this institution as much as anybody I know. It was the passing late last night of Senator John Warner. I am joined here by my friend of 39…

The wealth gap in this country should scare the hell out of all of us.

the Georgia law that makes it illegal for someone to voluntarily give somebody a glass of water if you are waiting for hours and hours in line to vote runs counter to any kind of basic notion of fairness in American democracy.

I want to single out, though, Jonathan Davidson, who helped me for the first number of years before my friend Michael Bennet stole him, where he became Chief of Staff.

I was going to--I see my friend, Senator Cortez Masto, there. I was going to go ahead and make my commercial again to this panel about one of the things we can deal with in terms of the wealth gap--and I have talked with these nominees…

Well, one of the things that could help move us forward and stop some of the forum-shopping that goes on by companies--and I hope Secretary Yellen will be successful--is having our partners in the OECD set some level of minimum corporate…

I am all for automatic stabilizers.

I would ask my colleagues to trust me on the math on this.

One of the things that we have talked about in the past is a relatively small piece of the financing sector, but one I think that has great potential to grow is CDFIs, community development financial institutions.

I have 9 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I rise today in strong support of the Endless Frontier Act--a long overdue, bipartisan effort to invest in our country's innovation and competitiveness. I am pleased to see that Congress is finally taking action to shore up U.S. investment…

COVID obviously exacerbated this--the wealth gap in this country, the wealth gap between Black families, White families, 10:1 differential.

I do think there are a number of our community banks who want to try to do more in this space.

We are working on a program... that would help all first-generation homebuyers.

I just want to compliment you, Secretary Buttigieg. You met with frontline workers from WMATA.

I want to call out my friend Mike Crapo, who was the lead Republican on that.

One of the things that I have worked with the chairman and others on is making sure that we encourage States to go ahead and expand Medicaid.

I think we all know that obviously COVID exposed some of the racial disparities we see in health-care coverage.

We can do a better job on our cybersecurity. And we ought to commit ourselves in this United States. We can do it better.

We need to hold some people accountable, but in the interim, we also need to make sure there was at least a -- you know, when the fire is burning, you got to report it to the firemen, and you’ve got to then pulse the whole network to make…