Legislation we have proposed would lift the cap on Social Security starting at $200,000.

If corporations choose not to offer a retirement plan, they must give workers the option of contributing to a Federal pension plan.

If corporations choose not to offer a retirement plan, they must give workers the option of contributing to a Federal pension plan.

workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they do so via payroll deduction and 20 times more likely to save if access to a workplace retirement plan is automatic.

workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they do so via payroll deduction and 20 times more likely to save if access to a workplace retirement plan is automatic.

Legislation we have proposed would lift the cap on Social Security starting at $200,000.

Incredibly, and this really is quite incredible, one out of every four senior citizens in America are trying to live on an income of less than $15,000 a year.

Legislation we have proposed would lift the cap on Social Security starting at $200,000.

We have the radical idea that maybe the people on top should start paying their fair share of taxes.

As a Nation, we have more income and wealth inequality today than we ever had in the history of America.

for some reason that I do not fully understand, it always appears to me that the more important the issue, the less it gets discussed here in the Congress and in the media--more important, less discussion. And today I want to say a few…

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major nation.

We ought to change that to 18. We ought to have workplace retirement plans pick up 18, 19, and 20 year olds that are working.

The truth is that we now have a retirement crisis in America that demands our immediate attention.

If corporations choose not to offer a retirement plan, they must give workers the option of contributing to a Federal pension plan.

Saving the Affordable Care Act happened by one vote. The American Rescue Plan, 2 million workers' pensions happened by one vote.

I would hope that we would agree that is simply unacceptable and that has got to change.

We must expand Social Security, not cut Social Security as many of my colleagues in Congress would have us do.

workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they do so via payroll deduction and 20 times more likely to save if access to a workplace retirement plan is automatic.

I would like to take a few minutes to discuss a matter of enormous consequence that is not being adequately covered in the mainstream media nor here in the Senate, and that is, right now, today, in Gaza, we are witnessing one of the worst…

one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history is now unfolding before our eyes in Gaza today--right now. And we, as the government of the United States, are complicit. It has been 4 months since Hamas's terrorist attack started…

Americans are forced to pay higher and higher prices for the drugs they need to survive.

The overwhelming beneficiary of these high drug prices is the pharmaceutical industry.

Adam Smith hated monopolies. It was the No. 1 thing he hated the most, monopolies.

Americans are forced to pay higher and higher prices for the drugs they need to survive.