We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.