I think it is incumbent upon all of us to remember the names of those students that you said out loud and our job here to make sure that students like them across the Nation get the kind of help and support they need from the Federal…

But there is more work ahead to address the challenges this pandemic has exposed and exacerbated...

We need to make sure that our kids and everyone in our communities get the help they need.

I am going to continue to keep pushing to make sure that every child in this country receives a safe, high quality public education.

When a mass shooting happens everywhere, this isn't just a school problem, it is a gun problem.

Our Nation's students have been through a lot in the past few years, as you well know, and it has done a lot of harm to their learning, their mental health, their development.

I am ready to work with any Republican to make any kind of meaningful change here...

three in five higher education students face housing or food insecurity, and two in five students drop out of college, do so because of financial pressures

I believe prioritizing our kids and making sure everyone of them receives a great public education...

We have rising caseloads, large backlog.

It is why I pushed so hard in our recent bipartisan funding bill to make the largest increase...

significantly, expanding Federal student aid, including doubling the Pell Grant, is a big part of a solution to that

We have to pass common sense gun safety reforms. There is no getting around it.

I have said this before and I will say it again, the groups that families and caretakers depended on to help them in this moment, the FDA, infant formula manufacturers, all get an F in my book.

I do believe that you have a capacity, a unique capacity to be that reformer.

Let me be clear, the fact that we even have to have this hearing, the fact that shelves are empty, the fact that babies across the country are going hungry and parents cannot find what they need to feed their infants is a massive…

We should not, we cannot leave parents to fend for themselves.

I am ready and willing to work--to continue working with you and absolutely anyone to get this right and make sure we never are in this situation again.

I am going to keep pushing to get formula on shelves and to families and babies.

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Washington…

I come to the floor today to support the nomination of Lisa Gomez as the Assistant Secretary for the Department of Labor's Employee Benefit Security Administration, or EBSA. EBSA has the massive task of helping retirees recover the…

I ask unanimous consent that the following Senators be permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each prior to the scheduled votes: Murray, Wyden, and Brown. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Parents need help. They need answers. Most importantly, they need formula now.

What doesn't make sense, what I can't for the life of me figure out is why it took so long to investigate in the first place.

this is a dark, enraging moment for our Nation. I have made that clear already, and so have so many of our Democratic colleagues. But I am speaking on the floor today because we cannot back down for a minute. We cannot lose sight of the…