what I want, and I believe Members of the Committee want, and certainly the American people want, is to create a Nation in which the people in the United States can live long, healthy, happy, and productive lives.

What we are discussing today, and this is such an important point, is poverty is like that.

If you are wealthy in America, you will live many, many more years than if you are poor.

the truth is that our life expectancy, how long our people live, trails behind many other industrialized countries.

the real outrage, it seems to me, and this is above and beyond the culprit, the horrors of the COVID pandemic, is that not all of our society is seeing a decline in life expectancy.

This reality of today is a moral and economic failing.

This is probably the most consequential piece of legislation since the 1930s.

So, this is, I would say the most consequential piece of legislation being proposed since the Great Depression.

We’re going to end that. We are going to deal in the most aggressive way imaginable with the housing crisis.

No family in America would pay more than seven percent of their income for child care, universal pre K, free tuition at public colleges and universities.

This bill will substantially raise taxes on the richest people in this country and the largest corporations.

We cannot pass a piecemeal because to do it through regular order, you need 60 votes. We’re not going to get one Republican vote.

What I hope this legislation will do is restore the faith of the American people that the government can represent ordinary Americans, not just the wealthy and the powerful and their lobbyists.

I think we are on the same page. My job is to do everything I can to see that the senate comes forward with the strongest possible legislation to protect the needs of the working families of this country, our kids, our parents. The deal…

It is not only the right thing to do, but what this Congressman knows, what Mitch McConnell knows, this is exactly what the American people want. So, it is good policy. It is good politics, and I and my colleagues are going to do…

We are going to have to win that struggle in order to preserve American democracy and end this big lie of Trump that he won the election by a landslide.

I think we're going to do everything we can politically to rally the American people, everything that we can do legally and in the United States Senate, do everything we can to put pressure on our colleagues to finally stand up and say on…

The house has already passed H.R. 1 and that is sweeping legislation to protect voting rights, to deal with gerrymandering, and to take dark corporate money out of the political process, something we have got to do.

In the richest country on Earth, you got to elderly people have no teeth in their mouth because Medicare does not cover dental, we don`t cover hearing aids, we don`t cover eyeglasses.

The truth is that real wages in America today are lower than they were 48 years ago. The very, very rich are getting richer.

We have got to deal with climate. And if we do not significantly invest in transforming our energy system, future generations will never forgive us.

It is progressive tax reform that says that maybe, just maybe Jeff Bezos and other billionaires should stop paying their fair share of taxes.

Well, from day one, Republicans opposed adding a supplement to normal unemployment, and at a time when tens of millions of people are working for starvation, wages, their theory is, if you have low unemployment benefits, you can stop…

We got to make higher education affordable. Those are the issues that are important to the American people.

They are still engaged in that kind of ideological struggle against the working class.