the American people are sick and tired of being ripped off by the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, which makes tens of billions of dollars per year in profit, charging us by far the highest prices in the world for our medicine. This…

here is what the Center for Biological Diversity had to say on this bill: This is a climate suicide pact. It's self-defeating to handcuff renewable energy development to massive new oil and gas extraction. The new leasing required in this…

I want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that we are debating this evening. I say ``so-called,'' by the way, because, according to the CBO and other economic organizations that have studied…

I ask unanimous consent that, for the duration of the Senate's consideration of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the majority and Republican managers of the bill, while seated or standing at the managers' desks, be permitted…

I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the amendment. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To establish a cap on costs for covered prescription drugs…

I call up my amendment No. 5210. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for himself and Mr. Merkley, proposes an amendment numbered 5210 to…

I call up my amendment No. 5281 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for himself and Mr…

here is what the Center for Biological Diversity had to say on this bill: This is a climate suicide pact. It's self-defeating to handcuff renewable energy development to massive new oil and gas extraction. The new leasing required in this…

my understanding is that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act may be coming to the floor in the coming days, and there are some people who think it is still worth supporting. There are others who think that it is not. But whatever your…

I wanted to come down to the floor and say a few words about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which may be coming to the floor this week. But before I do, I want to put this reconciliation bill into the context of where we are as a…

I previously revised the allocations, aggregates, and pay-as-you-go ledger for S. 2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, pursuant to section 3003 of S. Con. Res. 14, the fiscal year 2022 congressional budget resolution. As the…

I raise a point of order that the pending measure violates section 4106 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018, H. Con. Res. 71 of the 115th Congress, the Senate pay-as-you-go point of order. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I have heard, time and again, my Republican colleagues and a number of Democrats voice their serious concern about the deficit and our national debt. We are told that because of the deficit that at a time when we have the highest rate of…

like the Senator from Texas, I wish to speak about the so-called chips bill, but my perspective is, to say the least, a little bit different. To my mind, what the chips bill represents is the question of whether or not we will have…

I was necessarily absent for rollcall vote No. 267, Executive Calendar No. 902, confirmation of Shereef Elnahal as Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs. If I was present, I would have voted in support…

Let me suggest to my friend from Utah that I agree with a lot of what he said about this legislation that we are going to be voting on within the hour. I would simply add that while this bill has had many names--lately, they call it the…

Senator Lee raises important issues about the deficit. I hope very much that he will be able to convince his Republican colleagues and Democratic colleagues as well that, among many other reasons, we should vote against this major…

People like Manchin, Sinema -- Sinema, to a lesser degree, who are intentionally sabotaging the president`s agenda. What the American people want. What a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. Nothing new about this. And the problem…

at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the American people are sick and tired of the unprecedented level of corporate greed that we are seeing right now. The American people are sick and tired of paying outrageously high prices…

S. Con. Res. 14, the fiscal year 2022 congressional budget resolution, included a reserve fund in section 3003 to allow the chairman of the Committee on the Budget to revise budget aggregates and committee allocations for legislation that…

at 5:15 this afternoon, we will be voting on a budget resolution written by my colleague Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. As chairman of the Budget Committee, I urge a very strong ``no'' vote. At a time of a massive incline in wealth…

If the Federal Government gives a company $2.5 billion and a short time later the head of the company gets a $900 million golden parachute, that is not a concern to you?

One of the concerns that I have in terms of where we are now and where we might be in the future, is that the American people do not have ready access to the information they need as to how they can receive the best treatment available of…

Should our goal be, it seems to me, to make it nice and simple that if somebody is feeling ill, if somebody has COVID, they can dial a 1-800 number and get the drug as quickly as possible.

I want to change course a little bit here and touch on a subject that I don't think we talk about enough as a Nation, and that is that we have a significant shortage of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, other health care providers.