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“But that can only happen if the Republicans are willing to work with us, and working with us means actually working with us, not telling us to accept Elon Musk's cutting $1 trillion in fiscal year 2025 to our priorities, which is assumed in this Republican plan, and, at the same time, spending $342 billion on their own priorities. It also means not sitting on your hands--”
Senate20 February 2025Source ↗
“Madam President, I call up my amendment No. 878 and ask that it be reported by number.”
Senate20 February 2025Source ↗
“There are political realities. We all get that. But there is also right and wrong. There is fact and fiction. There is people staying healthy, and people dying pointlessly, kids dying pointlessly from diseases that we can prevent because they thought Congress took its job of vetting our healthcare Secretary seriously. So I urge my colleagues to show some courage. I urge them to show some conscience. I urge them to vote no on RFK, Jr.'s, nomination. Mr. President, I yield 3 minutes of postcloture debate time to the Democratic leader, and I yield the floor.”
Senate12 February 2025Source ↗
“For medical researchers and their families who are counting on cures, I vote no.”
Senate5 February 2025Source ↗
“Before us right now is a nominee who has made it very clear he will not respect the authority of Congress--of all us and the people who voted us in--nominated by a President who is not respecting the authority of Congress and the people who voted us in. We have to say we can't stand for that. We have to say from here that the law is the law. And a simple way we can send that message is by rejecting Russ Vought's nomination outright. Mr. President, I am here today to strongly urge my colleagues to join me in doing just that. I yield the floor.”
Senate5 February 2025Source ↗
“I ask for the yeas and nays.”
Senate5 February 2025Source ↗
“I am not asking for a lot here: Ensure every dollar held up by this illegal freeze is restored; stop the ongoing effort to block funding; withdraw the mastermind of this chaos; and simply follow the law. The American people deserve better than the catastrophe we have witnessed this week. They deserve to know that the investments Trump is currently holding up--to rebuild the highway they drive to work on or to lower their energy costs or so much more--will make it out the door. If the President is so intent on opposing funding for infrastructure projects and good-paying American jobs, he needs to sit down at the negotiating table and make his case to Congress. I will not let the President rip up the Constitution or rip money away from our communities. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.”
Senate30 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, we have several other colleagues who are going to come later to speak about this as well. I wanted to thank everyone who is here today. We want to make it very clear that we will not forget what happened on January 6. I don't care what records they raise or what kind of new stories they want to tell. We know what happened. This country cannot forget. And, today, we are here simply to say that the Senate disapproves of the pardons for individuals who were found guilty of assaulting Capitol police officers. I am disappointed that our Republican colleagues, today, refuse to join us. I yield the floor.”
Senate28 January 2025Source ↗
“As long as I can stand, as long as I can speak, as long as I am here, I will not let him or anyone rewrite the history of the January 6 insurrection or erase the important lessons that we must learn from it.”
Senate28 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 42, my resolution condemning the pardons for individuals who were found guilty of assaulting Capitol Police officers, which was submitted earlier today; further, that the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.”
Senate28 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.”
Senate28 January 2025Source ↗
“I suggest the absence of a quorum.”
Senate24 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.”
Senate24 January 2025Source ↗
“I ask for the yeas and nays.”
Senate21 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.”
Senate21 January 2025Source ↗
“And as long as I am here, they will be. So here is my message for Republicans: Families don't need less choice about how to handle tragic medical news. What families actually need is affordable groceries. What families actually need is childcare. What they actually need is paid leave, quality healthcare, access to programs like SNAP and Medicaid, which Republicans want to cut to the bone. Now, I can't predict what attack Republicans will launch on abortion next, but I can promise we will be here to call them out, both for what they are trying to do--lie about women and doctors--and for everything they are failing to do--lowering costs and making life easier for folks back home. I yield the floor.”
Senate21 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.”
Senate21 January 2025Source ↗