It is critically important we shorten the time of this route, we make it smooth and comfortable.

Please, please, do what you can to help with the damn milk prices. I am just sick that it has come to this, and this has hit many, many family farms.

Let me ask you--give you a chance to respond a little bit as to what you see with the $8 billion on high speed rail.

Senator Specter says focus on the most serious and important crimes and make sure we don't have our jails full of people who are largely non-violent drug users, and that money becomes exorbitant.

The President's fiscal year 2010 budget request proposes to eliminate the section 108 Loan Guarantee Program.

We call it a correctional system, but we all know it doesn't correct.

I have already applauded your work in the initiation of the legislation, and join you in it.

I can give him considerable support on the merits.

Mentoring is perhaps the most significant single factor.

Thank you, Senator Klobuchar.

In Pennsylvania, the Waxman bill has been projected, pretty accurately, to increase electricity costs by 30 percent, gas prices by 76 percent.

Personally, I believe natural gas should be a major component of any energy policy that this Congress endorses for a variety of reasons.

If we just go back and stick to the basic thing we are trying to fix, the Clean Air Act, we are trying to reduce carbon emissions, we are trying to address climate change.

I can't tell you how much I agree that innovation is important. Now, where I disagree is that what I see as a subsidy bubble, these allowances, as a way to promote innovation.

unless we get this right in this committee, but more directly and more in a more determinative way in the Finance Committee, and I favor the lifting of Medicaid to a 150 percent of poverty, but even just by doing that, we could put some…

Somehow the last Administration figured out a way to give a couple hundred billion dollars to the top 1 percent.

Our challenge now is to work with China to turn this commitment into effective implementation of the various Security Council resolutions.

the rule ought to be here four words when it comes to poor kids and kids with special needs: no kid worse off, no kid worse off.