it is no secret to anybody that the American people are frustrated and they are disgusted with what is going on in Washington. The Presiding Officer may have seen The Onion magazine, the satirical magazine that ran a story which says that…

I thank the Presiding Officer. Let me quote from the yesterday's New York Times: The current budget brinkmanship is just the latest development in a well-financed, broadbased assault on the health law, Mr. Obama's signature legislative…

all over this country the American people are outraged by what is going on here in Washington. They have a hard time understanding why rightwing extremists in the Republican Party in the House are able to shut down the U.S. Government…

in Vermont and all over this country there is profound anger and disgust at what is going on here in Washington. The reason is that today we remain in a significant and very serious economic downturn. Real unemployment is close to 14…

I thank the Senator from Georgia for yielding, and I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Vermont. ____________________

Let me say this: This debate is a lot bigger than whether the Republicans are successful in shutting down the government because of their insistence that ObamaCare be defunded. This debate is about whether a minority of the people in the…

I see. Let me conclude, if I may. I ask unanimous consent for 2 additional minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Did I have a time limit? I was not aware there was a time limit. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The only time remaining is for Republicans.

in Vermont and all across this country there is huge frustration with what is going on in Washington. It is clear to me that with the middle class of this country disappearing, with millions of Americans working longer hours for lower…

Absolutely. Absolutely. Let me make a point for the majority leader. Today was the first day people could go onto the exchanges. Maybe the majority leader would like to explain to the American people that, in fact, some of these Web sites…

I am aware of that. The point the leader is raising, what the question speaks to is that this is not a game we are playing when we are dealing with whether kids and others get treatment for cancer. What we are dealing with are life…

What I would say to the majority leader--and I was on the floor the other day reading quotes--when Social Security was first created, we had quotes from Republicans who were talking about the end of life as we know it, slavery coming to…

I wish the American people also to understand that we are going to win this struggle because of the determination of the majority leader, who is standing for tens of millions of Americans who not only want access to affordable health care…

let me concur with much of what my colleague Senator Shaheen has just said. But let me begin by doing something we do not do enough and that is to say thank you to the 2 million civilians and 1.4 million men and women in the military in…

I wish to say a few words to try to reflect what I think tens of millions of Americans are feeling at 11:25 tonight with the threat of a government shutdown in 35 minutes. What I want to say is that this discussion is not about ObamaCare…

I wish to concur with much of what my colleague from Vermont just said. Clearly, in our small State a government shutdown will be devastating--devastating for many thousands of Federal employees. If a shutdown continues, it will be…

The last point I will make. Maybe the most important discussion we should have is ending and overturning this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision which gives the billionaires in this country the ability to control what goes…

Let me begin by saying I think a debate over ObamaCare, a debate over health care, is good for the Nation. As I think many Americans understand, the United States is the only country in the industrialized world that does not guarantee…

September is Suicide Prevention Month. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veteran's Affairs, I would like to take a moment to discuss the importance of suicide prevention and ways in which we can all help our Nation's veterans cope…

I want to make a few points this morning and say what I think is on the minds of many Americans. There is a reason why the favorability rating of Congress is at 10 percent or less, and that is because the middle class of this country-- the…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Warren). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Michigan is recognized.

there is a lot of concern all over this country about what is going on in Washington in terms of the possibility that the United States, for the first time in its history, may not pay its debts and what that means to the American economy…

5 years ago, as a result of the greed and the recklessness and the illegal behavior on Wall Street, this country was plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a result, millions of people lost their…

I would hope very much, if you are confirmed, that you will apply yourself to make sure that we can in fact make that transition to renewable energy in a successful and efficient way.

I think that as time goes on more and more Americans and even Members of Congress will wake up to the reality that we need to transform our energy system.