The people of Alabama voted for a Senate candidate who said he would oppose this legislation. Their voices should be heard in this debate.

No. Look, Anderson, let us be clear, this tax bill was written for wealthy Republican campaign contributors.

I think there is significant truth to that and I think also there is another truth. In my view, too much of Democratic party money has gone to consultants, maybe too much to TV advertising and not enough to grassroots get out to vote…

If we can mobilize the American people to demand we have a government that works for all of us and not just the 1 percent, that we end the divisiveness that Trump has been advocating, I think we can win tremendous victories in 2018.

When people are prepared to get involved in the political process, stand up and fight, there is nothing that we cannot do and against all of the odds, Jones won because there was a very, very large turnout.

I think it's very significant. Not only because his victory in itself is important and Doug Jones coming to the Senate is very important. What Alabama was about last night was a tremendous amount of energy and a very high turnout.

President Trump and the Republican leadership, as we just heard, are talking every day on television, at news conferences, telling the American people how this tax bill that was passed here at 2 o'clock in the morning on Saturday--without…

I would like to enter into the Congressional Record the scores produced by the Congressional Budget Office for section 20001 as it appears in Senate amendment 1618; and the score of section 20001 as it appears in Senate amendment 1855. In…

could we have order, please? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will be in order. The Senator from Vermont.

as I think about what is going on here today, I think this is in many ways a historic day, a day that historians will look back on--December 1, 2017--and they will conclude that today is the day of one of the great robberies, of criminal…

it is no secret that I am strongly opposed to this disastrous, unfair, and destructive piece of legislation that we are debating today that will give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest people in our country, to the most profitable…

Pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I move to waive all applicable sections of that act for purposes of the pending amendment, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient…

Thank you. Madam President, tonight is chapter 1 of the Republican Party Koch brothers plan. Tonight, the Republicans provide $1 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country and to the largest corporations, while raising…

I thank the Senator very much. I would just say, according to a number of independent studies, despite what President Trump and the Republican leadership are saying, the overwhelming bulk of the tax benefits in this legislation goes to the…

So here we have a nation today that has a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality--worse than at any time since the late 1920s. The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, and 62 percent…

You have 62 percent of the benefits going to the top 1 percent. Meanwhile, by the end of the decade, my good friend, Senator Wyden from Oregon, there is no question but that tens of millions of middle-class Americans will be paying more in…

Let me make two points as I wind down here. One, yesterday, I challenged my Republican colleagues, after this bill is passed, to tell us and tell the American people that when they rack up a deficit of $1.4 trillion, they are not going to…

Absolutely. That is absolutely what they will do. They will talk about saving Social Security; they will talk about entitlement reform. What they mean is cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, and cutting Medicaid. As the Senator has…

I would just say that I would be delighted to gut and destroy this legislation, but pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974--I am sorry.

let me conclude my remarks. I would urge my Republican colleagues to come down to the floor of the Senate and explain to the American people what section 14504 is about and who benefits from some $600 million in tax breaks over a 10- year…

I am so happy that my colleague, my friend from Pennsylvania, is concerned about fairness, which, no doubt, is why 62 percent of the benefits in this tax proposal are going to go to the top 1 percent, and after 10 years we are going to see…

I ask unanimous consent for 3 more minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

I do not ask for the unanimous consent, but I would like to speak on an amendment that I will be offering later. Mr. President, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Republican leadership are busy every day telling the…

I call up amendment No. 1720, and ask unanimous consent that Senators Franken, Wyden, and Nelson be added as cosponsors. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is not in order.

the amendment I am offering with Senators Leahy, Brown, Harris, Baldwin, Udall, Reed, Markey, Heinrich, and Hirono is very simple and straightforward, and I am glad that a number of my Republican colleagues are on the floor because they…