This budget represents a world of change from the past few years on healthcare.

The pandemic really exposed what many of us have known for a very long time that the childcare system in our country is really broken.

the pandemic's deadly impact on communities of color really shows that we have a long way to go to address systemic racism and health inequities

this year's request is a rejection of some of the dangerous cuts that were proposed in the last administration

I really want to thank you for spending some time with Pacific Northwest National Lab during your virtual visit.

I fought to keep open [the facility in Walla Walla, Washington].

you know, it has been more than half a century since the Equal Pay Act became law, and 12 years since President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, but women in the United States still, on average, earn only 82 cents on the…

I ask unanimous consent that I and Senator Schumer be permitted to complete our remarks prior to the next vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered ____________________

construction is hard, dangerous work, and too often, when it comes to wages for workers, we see a race to the bottom, where workers and communities lose. Prevailing wage requirements, such as we have in this bill, help make sure that…

I am really worried about staffing shortages. The VA operates one of the largest health care systems in the country.

My bill, called the Planning for Aging Veterans Act, would improve VA's relationship with state-run veterans' homes and expand the care veterans in state homes receive.

I appreciate that, and our women veterans, in particular, we have a large number of women come into the military, they are aging, they are going to need these facilities.

I am really glad that President Biden included historic investments in home and community-based services in the American Jobs Plan.

I was really pleased to see President Biden's budget lay out a plan to make our economy actually work for working families and not just those at the very top.

I'm going to be reintroducing my Values in Arms Export Act to bring vital reforms to this process

I think we need both the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan if we want to build back a fairer and a stronger economy on the other side of this pandemic.

I urge the Administration to act now and issue a standard to ensure all workers are safe in their workplaces.

We also have to make sure workplaces are safe and not just against pandemics, but free from unsafe working conditions, environmental hazards, and sexual harassment and assault.

We have to raise the Federal minimum wage and eliminate the sub minimum wage for tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities.

If we are going to end this pandemic and build back stronger and fairer from the most unequal economic crisis in recent history, we have to address the problems COVID put a glaring spotlight on and the inequities that it has made worse.

We have to make sure every worker has paid leave and quality, affordable childcare.

I look forward to working with him to protect workers, especially considering the dangers of this pandemic continues to pose.

And we need to protect and strengthen the right to form or join a union and collectively bargain for better working conditions, wages and benefits.

I was just here yesterday reminding my colleagues that this is a bipartisan bill to help families across our country by boosting American's competitiveness. I have said it already. I will say it again. That means we have to ensure that…

I rise today in opposition to amendment No. 1911. It is an amendment that claims to be about protecting free speech but that could actually have a very chilling effect on speech at our institutions of higher education. I share the goal of…