Profitable corporations like GE, Verizon, and Boeing have not only paid nothing in Federal income taxes in a given year, they actually got rebates from the IRS.

Bottom line is we are spending substantially less in rebuilding our infrastructure than we have in the past.

Do you really want to balance the budget by cutting education, by cutting health care, by cutting nutrition?

I think that some of your conservative economists out there regard this as--to say the word kindly--'gimmickry' 'Budget gimmickry.'

several of these new requirements I believe are nothing more than a back-handed way to make it easier to cut taxes

the wealthiest family in this country, one family, the Waltons, owning more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of the American people.

maybe, just maybe, we might want to ask the wealthiest people and the largest corporations who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share of taxes.

If we do not act by November 3rd, we will default on our bills for the first time in our Nation's history.

it is essential that the information that CBO provides Congress is as accurate as possible and as nonpartisan as possible

we have to look at the broader picture of what is happening in America.

Defaulting on our debt would be a disaster.

let me respectfully disagree with my friend from Utah. Let me urge all Members to vote against what I believe to be a disastrous trade agreement, a trade agreement based on other trade agreements, which, in fact, have cost us millions of…

Let me say this, if I might. If I can get unanimous consent to speak after Senator Thune, that would be fine, and I would yield back to the Senator. How is that?

at 2:30 this afternoon, the Senate will vote on a motion to proceed to the fast-track bill which was recently approved by the Finance Committee. I will be strongly opposing that legislation. In a nutshell, here is the reality of the…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for up to 15 minutes after Senator Thune speaks. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I was necessarily absent during the Senate's consideration of S. Con. Res. 16, which states that Iran should immediately release Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati, and Jason Rezaian, and cooperate with the U.S. Government to locate and return…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

We need trade policies that work for the working families of our nation and not just the CEOs of large, multi-national corporations.

I want to thank Deputy Secretary Gibson and his boss, Secretary McDonald, for the very impressive work they are doing.

I believe that we have an infrastructure which is crumbling, and that impacts everybody.

a budget is a vision of the future, and it clearly appears the two sides have very different visions as to what our country should be and the direction in which we move. At a time of unprecedented and grotesque income and wealth…

let me thank Senator Enzi for his civility and his humor. I have enjoyed the process by which we have gotten to where we are today. But I must say that anyone who takes an objective look at this Republican budget can do nothing else but…

as you know, I have worked for many years to ensure all Americans have access to primary care. Community health centers are instrumental in providing that access to primary medical, oral, and mental health care. Right now, community health…

Epidemiology is one of the most important tools that science has.

I hope that you will remember what you are saying today and the great confidence you have in that agency, they will be well funded, and you will treat the administrators with respect.