The Voting Rights Act is central to our Nation's efforts to eradicate racial discrimination and secure equal opportunity for all Americans.

I think it is a win-win situation if the Senate passes a budget that has $500 billion in deficit reduction.

We cannot retreat from our obligation to invest in our future.

I'm going to fight for it hard; I believe in it.

Namibia's successful transition to a stable, multiparty, multiracial, multiethnic democracy offers hope and optimism for other nations in the region.

I congratulate the Senators from both parties who voted to break the filibuster of campaign finance reform.

We want a steady recovery.

Today's vote is a breakthrough in the fight to give the Government back to the American people.

It's good to see that it brings Congress together as well.

I have long believed that we will not give the middle class the economic growth and health care reform it needs unless we also reform our political system.

I've always said that national service would be America at its best.

I want to say a special word of appreciation for the work that the President and Namibia have done in promoting their new system of government.

This legislation, while it necessarily contains compromises, will change Washington for the better.

I think they're a real shining example for emerging democracies in Africa and on other continents as well.

National service will do so much that must be done: meeting our country's needs, paying for our children's education, and bringing all of us together in the common work of citizenship.

I'm sure that it will.

The SSC project will stimulate technologies in many areas critical for the health of the U.S. economy.

The ultimate goal is to restore the conditions of peace which existed before the Pakistanis were murdered.