It is finally seeing the United States Congress taking a hard look at the problems facing working families and responding rather than listening to corporate lobbyists, rather than listening to wealthy campaign contributors.

What I wanted to say is Jeff, you are worth $180 billion, B, $180 billion. You are the wealthiest person on earth. Why are you spending millions of dollars trying to defeat a union organizing effort in Alabama where your workers are…

We need to take a hard look at that and determine the kind of country we want to become. And I do not believe we want to become an oligarchy.

There has got to be much more emphasis on fighting monopolies, and it is monopolies both in terms of big high-tech companies, also monopolies in terms of high finance, big pharma.

The simple truth is that today in America the very, very rich are getting much richer, while tens of millions of working-class Americans are struggling to put food on the table and take care of their basic needs.

a typical retirement investor will end up with 8.5 percent less in his or her 401(k) or IRA after a lifetime of savings.

According to one study, under the version of the tax proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), a typical retirement investor will end up with 8.5 percent less in his or her 401(k) or IRA after a lifetime of savings.

This legislation is quite comprehensive in attempting to address the needs of working families.

the next reconciliation bill will deal with our structural problems, not just the emergency problems of how we can create millions of good paying jobs.

We're putting money into making sure that millions of workers do not lose the pensions that they were promised.

This legislation will expand the child tax credit and lower childhood poverty in America by up to 50 percent.

In the richest country in the history of the world, people should not be going hungry.

What this legislation does, Anderson, is it addresses a crisis that this country has ignored for too long.

the American people want it, overwhelmingly large numbers of people support raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.

I am going to pass that bill.

the Biden administration, I think in the last month has made real progress, but we have a long, long way to go

we're not going to get our kids back to school safely. We're not going to get our economy humming the way it should be, and create the millions of jobs we need to create unless we crush the pandemic

this is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades

It says to me that the Republicans have turned their back on the needs of working families.

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in accordance with section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the waiver provisions of all applicable budget resolutions, I move to waive all applicable sections of that act and applicable budget resolutions for purposes of…