whether one is a progressive, a Democrat, a conservative, a Republican, or somewhere in between, there is a deep understanding in this country that we are living in a rigged economy, and people are increasingly angry and frustrated about…

my job, our job is to go forward, is to do everything we can to defeat this white wing agenda of the Republican Party and the Trump administration, not to look backwards.

I don't think there's any same human being who doesn't believe that my campaign was taking on the entire establishment including the DNC.

Look, you know, it embarrasses me. I'm not happy to say this. He is the President of the United States, but he lies all of the time. This is just one more lie among many other absurd proposals, revisions in the tax proposal is the repeal…

To say the independence, we don't want you, you're the majority fraction in America, but we want to close the door to you, I think that's politically insane.

Every working person in this country is concerned about the outsourcing of jobs to Mexico and to China. Every worker is concerned about how he or she is going to go forward. Healthcare, they are concerned about how that you are going to…

Well, first of all, I think yesterday's elections were really a referendum on the disastrous Trump administration, on his temperament, on his reactionary policies. It was a referendum on Trump and Trump and the Republicans lost.

My guess is that historians in years to come will look back at hearings like this and they will ask, what were they thinking about?

But we will never flip that switch as long we continue investing in oil and gas.

All over this planet today we are seeing nations, including our own, ravaged by the impact of climate change.

It is especially surprising that in a beautiful state like Alaska, which has been hit so hard by climate change, that you are not leading the world.

The evidence is overwhelming that this country should lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energies.

Don't you think that Alaska should be leading our country in terms of transforming our energy system away from the products that have caused the problems that are impacting your state?

Right now, according to NASA, the first six months of 2017 were almost a full degree hotter than any year since records started being kept in 1880.

the United States today faces a major healthcare crisis. I think we all understand that. In the midst of that healthcare crisis, we face an even greater crisis in primary healthcare, and that means that there are many, many millions of…

let me begin by pointing out an op-ed that appeared in the Boston Globe today. It is an op-ed that I wrote. It is called ``The health care crisis no one is talking about.'' Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this op-ed be printed…

Chairman Enzi suggests that this is just a ``technical corrections amendment.'' Actually, that is not quite accurate. At a time when the United States spends more on defense than the next 12 countries combined, amazingly, this amendment…

I rise in strong opposition to the Paul amendment. In the budget we are debating today, my Republican colleagues have required the Finance Committee to increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next decade. This budget would pave the…

I rise in strong opposition to the Paul amendment. This amendment includes reconciliation instructions to cut nearly $100 billion in programs that are vital to working families in this country, including education, healthcare, nutrition…

this is not a bad budget bill. It is a horrific budget bill, an extremely cruel bill, and the most unfair budget ever presented in the modern history of our country. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, this budget provides…

Pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I move to waive section 305(b)(2) of that act for purposes of the pending amendment, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second…

this is a very simple and straightforward amendment. It would establish a 60-vote budget point of order to prevent the top 1 percent of Americans, people who are doing phenomenally well, from receiving any future tax cuts. At a time of…

if we support children and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth, we will vote against this budget resolution, but I have no problems with Senator Heller's amendment. What I do want to do is spend a…

this amendment says no to the cutting of $1 trillion from Medicaid and forcing 15 million Americans off the health insurance they currently have, while at the same time providing a $1.9 trillion tax break to the top 1 percent. This is not…

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Cantwell be added as a cosponsor to amendment No. 1119 and that Senator Stabenow be added as a cosponsor to amendment No. 1120. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.