The truth is that corporate greed is nothing new.

The rich get richer, and working families struggle. The wealthy buy political campaigns.

CEOs in large corporations now make 350 times more than their average workers.

We have concentration of ownership in sector after sector that we have not seen in a long, long time.

During World War II, our country, the people of our country, understood that it was unacceptable for companies to make obscene profits when young men and women were dying in Europe and in Asia.

There is no reason we should not be doing it now. In fact, there is every reason we should be doing it.

They want us to represent them, not the corporate world.

the incredible power now held by corporate America, not only over the economic life of this country but the political life of this country and the media life of this country.

I am a proud co-sponsor of the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act, which would establish a per-barrel tax to capture the windfall profits of the largest oil companies and return that money to consumers in the form of a quarterly rebate.

The problem is that corporations are making record-breaking profits and over 700 billionaires in American became nearly $2 trillion wealthier during the pandemic while engaging in obscene levels of price gouging.

We have half of our people living paycheck to paycheck.

I say to Jeff Bezos, why are you spending millions trying to defeat an effort on the part of workers here who want nothing more than decent wages, decent benefits, decent working conditions.

The time is now for Congress to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

A Federal budget is more than just a huge spreadsheet of numbers.

The effective tax rate of billionaires in America is now 8 percent, which is lower than what a nurse, teacher, firefighter, or truck driver pays.

This is an important step forward, and I congratulate the President for doing that.

I will be doing everything I can to pass a strong and robust budget reconciliation bill that works for working families, not the 1 percent.

The President's budget is a statement of our values and priorities.

Health care is a human right, not a privilege.

We need to focus on the needs of working families.

Over half of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck.

They understand there is something fundamentally wrong with so few have so much and so many Americans have so little.

It speaks to whether or not we can go beyond the needs of the lobbyists.

Do we have the courage to take on the hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbyists... or do we stand with the patients?

This was bad before. It has only gotten worse.