They are forced to rely on food stamps to feed their children, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

Study after study has shown that a gradual increase in the minimum wage does not lead to increased unemployment.

We need to strengthen and expand these programs, but we also need to ensure that our labor market and broader economic policies rebalance bargaining power between workers and employers.

Are you able to come up with any estimate as to how much in tax-supported programs low-wage workers nationally receive?

The largest welfare recipient in America happens to be the wealthiest family in America, the Walton family; a family that owns the largest corporation in America, Walmart.

We must be the party of the working class of this country White, and Black, and Latino, Native American, Asian American.

I think we can come together, at least on this issue.

We are struggling big time with crumbling roads and bridges.

I am very excited about the concept of the Civilian Climate Corps because my experience suggests that there are millions of young people who would love the opportunity to help transform our energy system and help clean up the pollution…

I am going to start off by asking you a very broad, but important, question. The scientific community is telling us that if we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels, there will be irreparable…

the way our government, from day one, from before we became a country, has treated the Native American people, has been nothing less than shameful.

The debate of today is not about healthcare. It's not about climate change, it is not about education. It is, in fact, whether the Republican Party believes in democracy, or whether they're going to continue to believe in the big lie.

We don't believe in one authoritarian government, run by one person, Trump or anybody else, we don't. We believe in the rule of law.

The $15.00 minimum wage was included in the House Bill. We are going to make our case and this is enormously complicated... But we are going to make our case to the parliamentarian that we absolutely believe that raising the minimum wage…

We have to focus on climate change, on criminal justice and racial injustice, on immigration reform. We have enormous crises facing this country and we have got to go forward aggressively in standing up for the working families of this…

I think when you have for the first time in 200 years an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States, you want to know as much as you can about who was behind it and what happened then and the role of the President of the…

I did. Mr. Counsel VAN DER VEEN. My judgment is irrelevant in this proceeding. It absolutely is. What is supposed to happen here is the Article of Impeachment---- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate will be in order. Senators, under the…

I send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Vermont, Mr. Sanders, has a question for both the counsel for the former President and the House managers. The clerk will read the question, and following our…

I do not think anybody on your side denies that our infrastructure is crumbling.

President Biden promised to raise the minimum wage over a period of several years to at least $15 an hour.

we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth

the people on the top economically are doing phenomenally well, while so many tens of millions of Americans are struggling

Ms. Tanden, will you at this point commit to doing what President Biden and I and many others want to see happen, and that is, help us move to end starvation wages in America by raising the minimum wage over a period of several years?

I am going to work with him to make sure that we implement those promises.

we are living through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the worst public health crisis in more than 100 years