this was an embarrassing counter-offer from the Republicans when they proposed it today, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

we progressives are calling for an even bigger proposal than what the president proposed.

the problem will not be that we go too big. The problem will be as we go too small.

Democrats and Congress try to decide just how much longer they`re going to allow Republicans to stand in the way of some very popular proposals before they and the president decide to go at it alone.

I've seen in my district how WIOA can help workers connect with strong well-paying jobs.

Women, many of them women of color, have lost 5.4 million jobs overall during the recession.

Guess what, it gets even more popular if you put in the fact, as the president has said, that we`re going to tax the biggest corporations and the wealthiest people in order to raise some revenue.

At the end of the day, the Republicans didn`t vote for it.

I think it`s important to distinguish between what Republicans across the country want and what Republicans in Congress are willing to do.

You know, every Democrat that I talk to in the House for sure is really on board with getting a big investment, a once in a generation investment done in all of these different pieces, roads, bridges, transit, broadband, you know, taking…

let's put those two together, let's pass it through reconciliation, and let's do what is incredibly popular across the country.

We have clarity, as you said, and now we go back to doing what the country actually wants.

Mahatma Gandhi, a great leader on nonviolence, said poverty is the worst form of violence. Let me be clear: We allow poverty when we take no action to eradicate it. 145 million Americans today live in poverty in the wealthiest country in…

We are here today for Soon Chung Park, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Hyun Jung Grant, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Amarjeet Kaur Johal, Jasvinder Kaur, Jaswinder Singh, Amarjit Sekhon, and too many others. This bill is an important step to address…

It actually is the tyranny of the minority. You get 40 senators who are able to block even things that are bipartisan and that the entire country wants just like happened during, you know, the Jim Crow era and the movement of -- or the…

We need to get rid of the filibuster. And it’s not enough just to pass the Voting Rights Act. That is one piece of it, but the other piece is also S1, which is the bill that would actually make illegal many of these practices across the…

the GOP has figured out that they can’t win on the Trump agenda of, you know, giving huge tax breaks to the wealthiest and stripping health care away from people. And so what they have to do is they have to stop people from voting…

Research shows that young people of color are less likely to be employed between the ages of 16 and 29.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act is a powerful tool to equip working people with the education and training services that they need for today's labor market.

We have to address unique barriers to employment that are faced by young people of color in this country.

Baseless conspiracy theories and those who encourage them are harmful, in and of themselves.

President Joe Biden was duly elected in a free and fair election, defeating Donald Trump.

But make no mistake, he is not the only one responsible.

We can get to work on crafting a big, bold relief package that really addresses infrastructure, the care economy that lowers the Medicare eligibility age to 60 and expands Medicare benefits, that addresses environmental justice.

Mitch McConnell has no interest in doing anything for the people.