my colleague from Florida may not know it, but this is a budget, a $1.9 trillion reconciliation budget, which, in fact, will turn out to be the most significant piece of legislation for working people that has been passed in decades…

President Biden is right. He canceled the Keystone Pipeline because he is listening to the scientists, and what the scientists are telling us is that we have a small number of years-- 5, 6, 7 years--before this country and this world face…

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…

my colleague, the ranking member, Senator Graham, says: Why?--$1.9 trillion, a lot of money. We have spent money over the last year. He is right. Why did we spend the money? The answer is because we are facing a series of unprecedented…

I rise to offer an amendment to increase the Federal minimum wage from a starvation wage of $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour over a 5-year period. As I think you know, Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 2007. The result of that is…

I call up my amendment No. 972. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 972 to amendment No…

I ask unanimous consent that for the duration of the Senate's consideration of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the majority and Republican managers of the bill, while seated or standing at the managers' desks, be permitted…

given the unprecedented series of crises this country now faces, the Republican amendment simply does not accomplish what the American people need or what they want. Our bill would substantially expand the child tax credit and cut child…

Let me be very clear, we are not given up on this. We are going to come back with vote after vote and one way or the other. We are going to pass a $15 an hour minimum wage. That is what the American people want. And that is what the…

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter dated February 22, 2021, about tip wages, signed by hundreds of organizations There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows…

later today or tomorrow, as part of the American Rescue Plan, which we will be discussing in the next few days, which I happen to believe is the most significant piece of legislation to come to the floor of the Senate in decades in terms…

She has done an excellent job in working with Democrats and Republicans.

S. Con. Res. 5, the fiscal year 2021 congressional budget resolution, included an instruction to the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to file enforceable levels in the Senate in the event the budget was agreed to without the…

There is no doubt that she is highly qualified for this position and I strongly support her nomination.

We have an immigration crisis that must be addressed. It has been ignored for too long.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of nearly any major country on earth.

We have a racial injustice crisis, and we will accelerate our effort to fight systemic racism.

We have a major health care crisis and are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, as a human right.

We have a terrible crisis with the pandemic, where we have lost half a million Americans.

Those are not my ideas. That is what the Biden administration has been talking about.

if you are a large corporation making a whole lot of money, you should not pay your workers starvation wages.

I strongly disagree with tonight's decision by the Senate parliamentarian. Yet because of the archaic and undemocratic rules of the Senate, we are unable to move forward to end starvation wages in this country and raise the income of 32…

If this isn’t in the final relief bill, we are going to pass a stand-alone raising of the federal minimum wage.

Look, at the end of the day, Anderson, what is so upsetting about the Parliamentarian's decision is you've got 60 percent of the American people who want to raise that minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.

Walmart is owned by the wealthiest family in this country. They are worth $200 billion, and yet they're starting off their workers at 11 bucks an hour.