Unfortunately, until we put market discipline into the health care system, waste and fraud will continue to be a reality in Medicare and Medicaid.

If we are to have a robust national drug control strategy, we must not cut the resources available for these efforts.

The Byrne-JAG assistance grant should be funded at full strength of $1.1 billion as originally recommended by the Senate.

Mark my words; it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

We are more safe. We are more secure. Our interests are more secure, not just at home, but around the world.

It is an outrageous, an outrageous, outrageous law, number one. Number two, we are not in Afghanistan to make the point to see to it that we make everything right in Afghanistan. I am not prepared to send American troops to die for that.

We are more safe; we're more secure. Our interests are more secure, and not just at home, but around the world.

In Delaware, we think of Connecticut as a big State.

We need leaders like you who can build alliances.

If the policies pursued are not pursued with great care and restraint, this great machine we call America will grind to a halt.

In too many respects, opportunities for progress on clean air have largely been squandered over the last 8 years.

I hope that you will approach pending decisions on greenhouse gas regulation with great care.

They have a need to establish Federal leadership on climate.

You will need to implement vital air toxic risk rules that have been shelved or unfunded by the last Administration.

There is a lot of legislation we want to move while I have this gavel in my hands.

I hope it is going to be a cap and trade bill, I hope it is a bipartisan bill at the end of the day.

But I also believe that the renewable fuel standard must be implemented in a manner that positively impacts both our economy and our environment.

Consumer safety, public health and environmental protection must be ensured through robust and thorough testing before EPA allows these blends for general sale in gasoline-powered engines, whether on-road or non-road.