I support this amendment. I hope we can do it through a voice vote. Vote on Amendment No. 816 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 816) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator…

Let me thank my colleague from South Carolina. And I look forward to working with him. He is going to be the ranking member of the Budget Committee. We have a lot of work to do, and I look forward to working with him. As Senator Graham…

I urge a ``no'' vote on the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.

I do not oppose this amendment. I don't think anybody here wants to see people making $300,000 or $400,000 get direct payments. But let me be very clear, speaking for myself. I absolutely want to make certain that people who are making…

Yes. We yield back time. We support a voice vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The yeas and nays were previously ordered.

as the new chairman of the Budget Committee, I wanted to take a few moments to talk about the $1.9 trillion budget resolution that I hope will be passed late tomorrow night. I think sometimes our friends in the media make the political…

I ask unanimous consent that the following staff members from my staff and from Senator Graham's staff be given all-access floor passes for consideration of the budget resolution, S. Con. Res. 5: the majority staff: Michael Jones, Joshua…

I rise today to speak in support of the budget resolution that was introduced today. Mr. President, let us be clear and let us in the Senate understand what the American people know all too well, and that is that our country is currently…

I ask unanimous consent that for the duration of the Senate's consideration of S. Con. Res. 5, the majority and Republican managers of the concurrent resolution, while seated or standing at the managers' desks, be permitted to deliver…

Look, as you`ve indicated, we are in the midst of the most unprecedented set of crises in the modern history of this country. And the governor of West Virginia understands that. I mean, we`re talking about people who have lost their jobs…

When you have a president leading an insurrection to overturn a government that he swore to defend, you know, you got to deal with that.

We’re going to another one. This one deals with the emergency of COVID. The next one deals with some of the structural long-term problems of a crumbling infrastructure, of climate change, of education, of a whole lot of other issues so…

It would be totally unacceptable for any democrat to renege on those promises. That is why people are giving up on the political process.

But at the end of the day, we all come from states. We are -- we are sick and tired of seeing hundreds of cars lining up for food, kids are unable to go to school, people not getting the vaccines as rapidly as they should. We all share…

If Republicans want to come along with that, great, but either way, we are moving forward.

What is much more important to the average American is that we deal and address the terrible, terrible pain and suffering that they are experiencing right now.

Now is not the time to think small, it is the time to think big and to address the crisis.

We have got to be very, very vigilant, and making it clear in this country, we can have differences, different points of view.

We can have differences, different points of view. We all disagree with each other. That is called democracy. But you do not have the right to threaten violence, and you certainly do not have the right to commit violence.

It would be unthinkable to me that any Democrat would want to renege on those promises we made.

This is a life and death proposal. And it must be passed immediately.

the only way that we are going to deal effectively with the pandemic and get vaccines into the arms of people, increasing vaccine production, the only way we are going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, so people are not working…

the bottom line is, in the midst of this terrible economic crisis, we have got to get checks of $1,400 on top of the $600 that we already allocated out to every working class family in this country, and to their kids as well. People are…

The hypocrisy is really quite extraordinary.

the senator has now announced they raised close to $2 million for charity all by selling meme-related merchandise on his Web site.