Kashmir / January

Join my colleagues and me LIVE at the U.S. Capitol as we speak about The George Floyd#JusticeInPolicing  Act.

Senate oversight of the @CFPB  is in strong and steady hands with @SenatorWarnock  leading the Banking Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. We both know that our regulators work for the American people – not the giant banks they’re supposed to regulate.

Cancel culture, censorship & runaway wokeness have placed us on the edge of a “Cultural Revolution” where, like Mao, the goal is to destroy the “four olds” - old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture. Wake up to this insanity or social & political catastrophe await

I challenge any Senator who opposes raising the federal minimum wage to live on $7.25 an hour. THEN we can talk about whether it’s sufficient for our working families. #RaiseTheWage 

8:46:12 p.m. - #HR1280  - On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (Roll no. 59).

Apple & Google’s app platforms are a necessity for many small businesses & startups to exist – but they rig the rules to bulldoze competition and consolidate their power. It’s time to loosen Big Tech's grip on our economy. Bills like this are a good start.

Another $1.9 trillion bill when we've already passed $4 trillion in COVID relief...AND we still haven't spent about $1 trillion of that!! We've grown immune to these vast amounts of money. Time for some perspective...

NEW from @dlagnew : Texas businesses must decide whether to require face masks. Some worry they could lose customers either way #txlege 

Live event venues have been effectively shuttered through the pandemic. Let’s use these spaces that are in urban, suburban and rural communities across the country to vaccinate as many people as possible.

According to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases in the US, there have been at least 28,782,682 cases of coronavirus in the U.S.; at least 518,174 people have died in the U.S. from Covid-19.          So far today, JHU has reported 88,611 new cases & 2,189 new deaths.