Community colleges are important workforce development providers.

connecting workers to sustainable jobs and employers to a skilled workforce has been Department of Labor's central mission for decades.

Climate change is a global crisis that requires urgent global action.

Puget Sound recovery and restoration is critical to my home State of Washington, to the Pacific Northwest, and to the country as a whole.

This budget is dead on arrival.

What we have done and want to continue to do is invest in jobs in those communities to give people skills they need, and this budget does not do it.

I am really concerned that the President's executive order serves as a distraction from what is happening in this budget.

Obviously, from the CBO numbers, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance.

I think paid leave is extremely important, but we cannot just throw out a proposal as if because States cannot make up that.

So I am really disappointed that these are in here.

Costs are going to rise.

I have not seen any analysis that shows a job increase as a result of this bill. And I think that what we are hearing--a lot of us--is the job losses. To me that is really deeply disconcerting.

it is pretty easy to see why. This is going to be a devastating bill and have a tremendous impact on patients and families.

This is going to have a devastating impact on jobs as well across the country.

Do you think that the purpose or the outcome of healthcare reform should be to insure more or less Americans?

I sincerely hope my colleagues remember that and urge their leadership to hold an open, transparent process.

I do hope that Republicans will join Democrats in continuing to reject the devastating cuts in President Trump's budget proposal.

To most Americans and to me it's clear that this core responsibility is to protect public health and ensure clean air and clean water.

As a senator from the state of Washington, EEOICPA is really important to me because we have thousands of workers and their families at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation located in the Tri-Cities who helped America win World War II and the…

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

That is confirmed. So I ask unanimous consent today that any substitute or perfecting amendment offered to Calendar No. 120, H.R. 1628, not be in order if the text of the amendment has not been the subject of a hearing, subject of…

Oh, Mr. President, I am well aware of that; and I will remind our colleagues and everybody in this country what will happen: There will be 10 hours of debate, where we hopefully have more than a discussion draft that we will be allowed to…

I heard the objection. I just have to say, the exchange we just heard is exactly what we have been objecting to. We were told the bill would be online at 9:30 this morning. It was online at 11. I have a copy of it, but we are hearing from…

what we are seeing here today is just the latest broken promise from President Trump and his Republican Party. After weeks of secret negotiations, back-room deals, shutting out patients, families, and Democrats and even many Republicans…

So it would be pretty devastating.