Opening statement during subcommittee hearing. — Good morning everybody. I am pleased to call this Subcommittee Meeting on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources to order. And I’m also grateful to Ranking Member Marshall for his partnership in organizing today’s hearing on Western water resilience. I know he shares my concern about the unprecedented drought…

Remarks on the Senate floor. — I saw a report over the weekend, Mr. President, that President Biden plans to cancel a significant amount of college debt. And I think it’s very important that before he does that, he considers several factors. One is to consider how we got in this sorry state that we’re…

Remarks on the Senate floor. — I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about Charlotte Sweeney, who is President Biden’s nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. For Charlotte, equality under the law isn’t an abstraction — it’s her life’s work. A native of Littleton, Colorado, Charlotte grew up…

Remarks on the Senate floor. — I am here today to spend a few minutes on an issue that is profoundly important to Colorado, and I would say, to the presiding officer’s state as well, without being presumptuous — New Mexico, our neighbor to the south In March, the Biden Administration launched an investigation into…

Remarks on the Senate floor. — Madam President, when I was in the second grade, we were asked to line up in our classroom by the people whose family had been here the shortest period of time and whose family had been here the longest period of time. And I turned out to be the…

Remarks on the Senate floor. — I appreciate the opportunity to address the Senate on an issue of real importance to our country and to families in Colorado and all across the United States. Today, 120 economists wrote an open letter — in the face of the inflation that we’re now facing as a nation…

Remarks on the Senate Floor. — I rise tonight to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to serve as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court. Judge Jackson comes to this floor with impeccable credentials. She graduated from Harvard magna cum laude. …

Remarks on the Senate Floor. — Let me say what a privilege it is to have the opportunity to make this speech in front of you, Mr. President, the fifth-longest serving senator in the history of the United States Senate — somebody who has been in the Senate for 46 years. I was eleven, Mr…

Remarks on the Senate floor. — I feel grateful to have the chance here to join my colleagues to mark the anniversary of January 6. And I thank the Chair of the Rules Committee, Senator Klobuchar, for her leadership in all of this. We had an insurrection here a year ago that could have very…