This budget begins to move us forward in terms of providing progressive tax legislation that finally asks the wealthy and large corporations to begin paying their fair share of taxes.

A Federal budget speaks to who we are as a Nation and where we want to be in the future.

Real wages, inflation accounted for wages in America, are lower today than they were 48 years ago.

The United States, I say to my colleagues, used to be the best-educated country on Earth.

If we are serious about calling ourselves democracy, we need to end voter suppression and make it easier for people to vote.

Now is the time to put our people back to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure.

We have got to deal with infrastructure. We got to deal with climate. We got to deal with the high cost of prescription drugs.

There is no issue more important to me and to most of my colleagues than the need to take on this ugly voter suppression and to defend American democracy.

How absurd it is that we still, many of us, continue to live in the 1950s here dad went to work and mom stayed home with the kids.

we've got to pass the For the People Act and if no Republican is prepared to support us, we've got to go with it alone.

what Republicans are trying to do now all over this country is stack the deck to make it harder for the people who will vote Democratic to vote

the only way we are going to go forward to protect American democracy, to give people in states all over this country a fair shot at electing who they want is by passing that bill.

What we are going to be bringing up within the next month is the For the People Act, which basically says the very radical statement that in America, if you're 18 years of age or older and a citizen, you have the right to vote.

What Republicans are doing in an absolutely shameful, disgraceful, cowardly way is making it harder for people of color, for poor people, for young people to vote.

To make the Senate work, you've got to start doing what the American people want us to do and that is stand up for working families and not just for the top one percent, and when you do that -- that is called democracy. It's called…

Joe has voted for terrible trade agreements.

This is an existential crisis.

I want to rise to say a few words about the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, which we are debating today. I think that the thrust of that act and what we are trying to accomplish is enormously important. Right now, as I think most…

Hundreds and hundreds of medical professionals have died as heroes and heroines fighting COVID-19.

And I thank you, Senator Sanders, for championing the recent historic investment in the National Health Service Corps.

Our Country faces many healthcare crises. Too many of our people are uninsured or underinsured.

The costs of prescription drugs are off the wall, and many people cannot afford that.

Primary care alone will be facing a shortage of up to 55,000 physicians.

We simply need to increase the number of healthcare professionals we train, including doctors.

The Federal Government plays an enormously important role in how many physicians we have.