If Republican leaders abandon this ideological commitment to undermining our healthcare system and giving a tax break to corporations and billionaires, Democrats are willing--we are ready and willing to work with you.

I am deeply concerned that we do not have a budget agreement and allocations across the board yet.

we are not anywhere close to meeting the demand out there, but there is real demand.

President Trump's businesses have repeatedly been the subject of cases at the NLRB.

I have been working with my colleague, Senator Casey, on legislation now to develop and institute some better training and reporting and data collection.

The National Labor Relations Board is responsible... for ensuring employees have the right to self-organization...

This approach will not fix our crumbling roads, replace lead water pipes, or build new schools.

I have strong reservations about your ability to protect those workers now, since you've spent a career fighting against them.

The preamble of the NLRA says it is the policy of the United States to encourage collective bargaining.

We should not hand it over to a nongovernmental entity that is not answerable to Congress or the courts.

Taken together, the NLRA and the Taft-Hartley amendments encourage and protect workers' rights to organize and collective bargain if they so choose.

Your lack of legal experience, as we talked about, practicing before the NLRB is really concerning to me.

I believe it is critical now more than ever that we are doing everything we can to ensure that every worker has a fair shot.

I will have to submit them for the record.

I'm sure you're not surprised that I'm going to once again object to the fact that we have not had a hearing on the Trumpcare plan.

The private sector does many, many things well, but it does not do everything better.

What we are hearing is that it will have the same results of higher costs for working families, loss of coverage for tens of millions of people.

I urge the Senate to quickly confirm Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.

from the moment President Trump and Republicans began trying to jam TrumpCare through Congress, I heard from family after family in my home State about the damage their efforts to undermine families' healthcare would do, and this last week…

like other infrastructure across Washington State and the Nation, the Ballard Locks are showing their age. Senator Cantwell and I commend the Army Corps for its work to restore and modernize the locks, and we are doing our part in Congress…

today, with my colleague Senator Cantwell, I wish to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the construction and operation of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, more commonly known in Washington State as the Ballard Locks. The Ballard Locks are…

farmers in the Odessa Subarea of the Columbia Basin Project have faced significant challenges for several years

before I begin, I want to make something absolutely clear. This healthcare fight is anything but over. TrumpCare is not dead--not even close--and we cannot let up. It is no surprise that Senate Republicans needed another week to try to jam…

I strongly urge you to complete this work as soon as possible so that eligible ports have access to the appropriated funding and can maximize the effectiveness of Section 2106.

it is my hope to work together to identify priorities and find common ground on how best to responsibly allocate taxpayers' resources.