Speeches

I rise today for the 298th time to call attention to the looming climate calamity.  I went last week to the Our Ocean conference, a conference founded by the United States of America, and dedicated to protecting our oceans before... Continue Reading

Madam President, I am here for the 35th time to call attention to the rightwing scheme to capture our courts and justice system, now out to target and persecute Trump political enemies and do Trump political favors. We have heard... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I rise for the 297th time to draw this chamber’s attention to the serious threat climate change poses to American families.  Earlier this month, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider over 30 rules and... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I rise now for the 296th time to direct our attention to what is coming at us through fossil fuel emissions causing our natural systems to be significantly disturbed. We are not yet all the way through the... Continue Reading

Mr. President, this is, I think, my 295th ‘‘Time to Wake Up’’ speech, with my increasingly battered graphic, which the Smithsonian has asked for as the most used graphic in Senate history, but I wouldn’t let them have it until... Continue Reading

Mr. President, 6 years ago, I sent all of my colleagues in the Senate this binder of economic warnings about climate change. Here it is. The warning signs were flashing, so I shared all of those different reports. When I... Continue Reading

Madam President, I am here for the 34th scheme speech on the right-wing billionaires’ covert scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. And I am here to report real progress in our work to restore the integrity of the... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I am back now for the 33rd time to keep shining a little light on the rightwing billionaires’ covert scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. As a result of that scheme, the Court’s rightwing just took... Continue Reading

Madam President, as the presiding officer knows, I have come regularly to the floor to discuss multiple aspects of the scheme run by a bunch of rightwing billionaires to capture and control the Supreme Court and how that has come... Continue Reading

Madam President, I am back with my trusty battered ‘‘Time to Wake Up’’ chart here to talk about the climate warnings that now predict climate-related damage in the trillions of dollars—trillions of dollars. A full third of our national debt... Continue Reading