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From the afl-cio saying there is no denying the trade rules in america will now be fairer, working people have created a new standard for future trade negotiations. i think it's a template for future trade agreements. some of my members say let's not give it that much. we'll see how it goes in the implementation. that means everything. after that today we will do salt and that is going to be state and local tax that the republicans put on to punish blue states largely. it is paid for, this legislation, to repeal the salt tax and it will be paid for by increasing rate on the wealthiest individu...

Is hr8, the other 1112. 295 days ago we sent those bills to mitch mcconnell, the grim reaper. i have news for him, he may think they're dead on arrival there but they're alive and well in the general public and every day that he does not take up that legislation -- he knows it will pass. he fears it will pass if he takes it up. every day that he does not pass it, 100 people die. not all of them by gun violence and not all would be saved by the legislation, but some. we urge him to take up that lifesaving legislation. the list goes on. paycheck fairness, equal pay for equal work. violence again...

To lower the individual rate and then they did. and now we will raise it again to repeal salt. so we're very proud of what we have done. as you know, the republicans keep saying we should be working. we've sent over 400 bills. 275 of them sitting on mitch mcconnell's -- 400, but 275 of those, at least, are bipartisan. the range of subjects is you've heard me say it. there is repeating, i think, that includes all of our top 10 pieces of legislation bipartisan background checks, expanding background checks. people have to have a background check unless they buy it at a gun show, online or some k...

Administration and the other countries was that we weren't going forward until we had the strongest possible enforcement of the trade agreement and also manifested in the legislation that we'll have on the floor today, the implementing legislation. as you've heard me say over and over again this is about enforcement. the overarching issue. if you can't enforce it, it doesn't matter what you put forth. other concerns we had workers rights, the other pharmaceuticals and the other the environment. and we made giant progress over existing nafta for sure. apart from that big distance between what t...

With any subpoenas. leader mcconnell claimed that the democrats, quote, obsession with impeachment has prevented the house from pursuing legislation to help the american people. leader mcconnell knows very, very well that the house democratic majority has passed literally hundreds of bills that gather dust here in the senate condemned to a legislative graveyard by none other than leader mcconnell himself who proudly calls himself the grim reaper. members of the 116th senate have been denied the opportunity to legislate by leader mcconnell. we aren't even allowed to debate the issues that would...