Richard Blumenthal
Senator for Connecticut · Democratic · United States
“I want to thank my partner in this effort, Senator Moody. This amendment really is about fairness. It is a minor adjustment to the bill that promotes competition by holding the big conferences to schools that want to compete, and it levels the playing field in a way that I think is important to the future of college sports.”
Senate28 September 2026Source ↗
“He is in a photograph of the wedding party. That picture haunts me. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. And the picture of a man who has, in effect, been complicit in abducting and reeducating children, separating them--and not just a few but literally tens of thousands, as many as 35,000, maybe 50,000 or more--separating them…”
Senate14 September 2026Source ↗
“In fact, Donald Trump made $1.4 billion, including 636 million from his meme coin, but nearly a million Americans lost billions of dollars--more than $3 billion--while he was making his huge profits. Corruption has consequences. It has costs.”
Senate14 September 2026Source ↗
“Just this morning, ProPublica reported that Donald Trump, Jr.'s, lavish wedding in the Caribbean was, in effect, heavily bankrolled by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin. His name is Umar Kremlev. Umar Kremlev is also involved in an organization that reeducates Ukrainian children who have been abducted.”
Senate14 September 2026Source ↗
“The fact is that it was the result of corruption as $1.4 billion of it came from crypto. The point of this legislation is, essentially, to end that corruption. We will vote tomorrow on a crypto bill that is, sadly and tragically, riddled with loopholes that enable him to continue this same self-dealing and self-enrichment.”
Senate14 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. President, I am here, thinking about all the Americans who are working on manufacturing plant assembly lines, of all the Americans who are teaching our kids in school or who are patrolling our streets as police or who are working in our hospitals--all of the hard-working Americans who are just working to get by, to make ends meet, to…”
Senate14 September 2026Source ↗
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“Mr. President, my thanks to Senator Thune for yielding and the Presiding Officer for presiding over the balance of the day. I am here with sadness--not for the first time and, tragically, not for the last, I fear--because I am here to speak to the decimation and destruction of veterans services ongoing in real time, right before our eyes, affecting real people in their daily lives.”
Senate11 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my military fellow Capt. Sean McSpirit be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this year.”
Senate5 March 2025Source ↗
“But let me just say, what is most important about this conversation is that we will continue together on both sides of the aisle, in a bipartisan way, to support Ukraine. It isn't about their being less strong, at least in the case of Senator Wicker. I am absolutely sure, and I respect his views on this topic even though we differ, and I hope that this cause will continue to be bipartisan. I yield the floor.”
Senate5 March 2025Source ↗
“That is not to say we don't obey court orders. It is to say we do not obey in advance what a dictator tells us to do. And when a dictator or a would-be tyrant says, ``Don't follow court decisions,'' we have an obligation to speak up and stand up. And that is what we are doing through this resolution. I yield the floor.”
Senate5 March 2025Source ↗
“And these headlines speak volumes about how they have been hurt: DOGE finds zero fraud, waste, or abuse, just new ways to harm veterans. Veterans fired in federal layoffs say they were ``stabbed in the back.'' These are just a scattering of the kinds of real-life stories that bring us to the floor today. I plead with the President: Please make this resolution unnecessary. Do the right thing. But if you don't, I ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: Join us from that other side of the aisle; join us in decrying these cuts, the freezes, the firings, the terminations. They are illegal and immoral. And we will move forward. We will continue to fight because American values are at stake. I yield the floor.”
Senate4 March 2025Source ↗
“He was serving in his dream job. These veterans and other courageous former members of our Armed Forces are going to be with us tonight, and they will be speaking out. They will be sharing their stories. They are not faceless bureaucrats. They are not suckers. They are not losers. They are hard-working public servants who have willingly sacrificed everything for this country, have been willing to give even their lives, and now have rededicated themselves to continue their service now that their military time is complete. I want to yield to my colleague from Michigan, Senator Peters, who himself is a veteran and a great colleague and friend of ours.”
Senate4 March 2025Source ↗
“We know that the cyber security lead for the VA website--the digital hub that connects veterans with their benefits and holds sensitive, personal data--was terminated. These kinds of impacts--and I have mentioned just a tiny fraction of all of them--are ongoing. They are real. They are urgent. I am more than happy to work on the language of this resolution, but the goal is indisputable and unavoidable. I am going to turn now to some of my colleagues who have joined me today. I thank them for doing so. First, Senator Whitehouse, if I may yield to him.”
Senate4 March 2025Source ↗
“This resolution acknowledges that veterans, who make up less than 7 percent of Americans but approximately 30 percent of public service, have been really disrespected and disserved in just these weeks, with such destructive and repugnant effects on them, on the veterans they serve, and on American values. Our Nation and they deserve better. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 105, which is at the desk; further, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.”
Senate4 March 2025Source ↗
“I ask for the yeas and nays.”
Senate20 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, in order to protect our veterans, who deserve full funding, I call up my amendment No. 659 and ask that it be reported by number.”
Senate20 February 2025Source ↗
“I am appalled that my Republican colleagues voted for him in committee unanimously on their side. I am appalled that so few may vote against him on the floor today. But I am absolutely sure of this one thing: This vote will haunt anyone who votes for him. They will rue the day they did it. To my Republican colleagues, think about it. Think about what you will tell your constituents--more important, your family, and maybe your grandchildren--about why you picked and voted for this person who will so completely and utterly disgrace this office and do such great damage to our Nation's justice system. I yield the floor.”
Senate20 February 2025Source ↗
“He could help eliminate racism and bias against LBGTQ+ people in our healthcare system. There is so much opportunity squandered in this nomination. I will vote no on Robert Kennedy, Jr. I urge my colleagues to heed the warnings from Americans much better qualified than I am to make this judgment--those Nobel laureates; the professional organizations; the healthcare experts; and, of course, his family, who knows him best--Caroline Kennedy, who spoke with such eloquence and insight. Her incisive and heartbreaking video should be watched by everyone who is about to vote on this nomination. I yield the floor.”
Senate12 February 2025Source ↗
“There are other confirmations that we have opposed. There are other individuals whom I have said are unqualified for positions of high trust in the President's Cabinet. There is a general deference that should be paid to the President in choosing his team, but this position is one of the most critical in sensitivity and importance, demanding the highest trust and credibility. It should not be occupied by Tulsi Gabbard. I ask my colleagues to join me in saying and voting no. I yield the floor to my great colleague from the State of Massachusetts, Senator Warren.”
Senate11 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I am here to ask my colleagues to join me in a very simple truth: Tulsi Gabbard should not be the next Director of National Intelligence. It is a simple, unequivocal truth, and it should be so clear to everyone because she is unprepared and unqualified for this role. She lacks the confidence and character, and that has been made crystal clear in the proceedings so far during her confirmation.”
Senate11 February 2025Source ↗
“I yield the floor.”
Senate29 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I think it is fair to say that none of us expected a week ago to be here on the floor at this moment, talking about a massive, across-the-board freeze on Federal funding. I don't think either of us, on either side of the aisle, expected to be here on this topic. We are in no ordinary time. The chaos and confusion are extraordinary. And it is the result of one man: Donald Trump.”
Senate29 January 2025Source ↗
“It is about everyday Americans who will be severely harmed and their children who will bear, perhaps, unfortunately and tragically, lasting scars emotionally and maybe physically from this destructive impact on their lives. I regret that we are here today. I am proud to be with my colleagues. I wish we were joined on the other side of the aisle, but I believe that they will hear, on the Republican side, despite their silence tonight, voices that are loud and clear to them, from the American people, that this kind of halt--a dictatorial, illegal stop--in Federal funding should violate the conscience of our Nation. I yield the floor.”
Senate28 January 2025Source ↗
“Come with us in condemning the violence that occurred and stand with the officers--the police, the law enforcement. Stand with the blue, and condemn the violence of that day. Stand with the officers who put their lives on the line and who suffered injury, maiming, and some deaths in the aftermath. I yield the floor.”
Senate28 January 2025Source ↗
“Hegseth is not the person to have that responsibility, and I hope my colleagues will recognize that fact and vote against his nomination. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.”
Senate23 January 2025Source ↗
“She modeled guts and grit and public service, showing courage and fortitude beyond words as a champion of women's reproductive freedom. I will always remember her smile, her fierce determination, her endless energy. They will be with me always, and they inspire me to say today to my Republican colleagues: Please leave alone the women who deserve doctor's care and that care alone, not our interference. I yield the floor.”
Senate21 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I rise today to acknowledge the life and contributions of one of the Senate's truly outstanding staff persons: Elise J. Bean. Elise, who worked for almost 30 years for Senator Carl Levin on various subcommittees of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, died on January 14 at the age of 68.”
Senate16 January 2025Source ↗